Title: Sink or swim; or, Harry Raymond's resolve
First published: 2005
Description: After the death of his carpenter father, fifteen-year-old Harry Raymond, now the sole support of his mother and younger sister, finds his plans for a business career in New York City overturned when his discovery of a fraudulent insurrance scheme leads to his kidnapping and forced indenture on a ship bound for China.
Subjects: Fiction, History, Conduct of life, Ocean travel, Shanghaiing, Juvenile fiction, Swindlers and swindling, Gold mines and mining, Fiction, historical, general, Australia, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: Australia, New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 1865-1898, 19th century