Title: A ship for the king
Description: Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, but his life changes forever when two gentlemen spot his potential and he is taken aboard their merchant ship, the Swallow, to be trained for a life at sea. As he rises through the ranks, he risks all in encounters with pirates and French corsairs. Meanwhile, England edges ever closer to civil war, and very soon Kit must chose which side he will fight for.
Subjects: Sailors, Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649) fast (OCoLC)fst01352303, Fiction, Seafaring life, History, Fiction, historical, general, Great britain, history, civil war, 1642-1649, fiction, Great britain, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 17th century, Civil War, 1642-1649