Peril on the sea
By: Michael Cadnum
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780374358235
Subjects: Pirates; Adventure stories; Adventure and adventurers; Juvenile fiction; History; Armada, 1588; Fiction
Description: In the tense summer of 1588, eighteen-year-old Sherwin Morris, after nearly perishing in a shipwreck, finds himself aboard the privateer Vixen, captained by the notorious and enigmatic Brandon Fletcher who offers him adventure and riches if Sherwin would write and disseminate a flattering account of the captain's exploits.