Ship of fire
By: Michael Cadnum.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596 -- Fiction; Apprentices -- Fiction; Physicians -- Fiction; Seafaring life -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1587, sailing to Spain on board Sir Francis Drake's ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure," seventeen-year-old surgeon's apprentice Thomas Spyre finds that, with the sudden death of his master, he must take over as ship's surgeon and prove his skill not only as a doctor but also as a fighter when he is enlisted by Drake to face battle.