Title: With Morgan on the main
Description: An excellent boys' adventure story, in which the boy Arthur's father is captured by the Spanish on his way to take up his post as deputy governor of Jamaica in the 1680s. Arthur escapes and is picked up by British privateers, led by Captain Harry Morgan. He manages to get Morgan's help to rescue his father who is imprisoned in Panama. Main interest is the historically very accurate description of life on the Spanish Main and Morgan's taking first of Portobello, then Maracaibo, then Panama. Compare the scholarly Peter Earle, *The Sack of Panama*, Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin's Press. New York 1981.