Prisoner of the Indies
By: Decorations by Warren Chappell
Contributors: Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Fiction; Sea stories; Discovery and exploration
Description: Recounts the fifteen-year voyage of Miles Philips who signed on as a cabin boy with John Hawkins on a voyage to New Spain. There he chose to stay ashore with several comrades, to avoid the scurvy and starvation of ship life, preferring to face the perils of the Inquisition as an Englishman on sixteenth century Spanish soil.
Notes: "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."