Among Malay Pirates (Dodo Press)
Publisher: Dodo Press
Published: October 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781406560244
Subjects: General & Literary Fiction; General; Fiction / General; Fiction - General
First sentence: "I wish most heartily that something would happen," Harry Parkhurst, a midshipman of some sixteen years of age, said to his chum, Dick Balderson, as they leaned on the rail of her majesty's gunboat Serpent, and looked gloomily at the turbid stream that rolled past the ship as she lay at anchor.