Title: The man with the silver Oar
Description: In 1718, fifteen-year-old Daniel leaves his guardian uncle's Quaker household to stowaway on a ship in pursuit of a pirate captain bent on raiding the coast of North America before returning to port in Hispaniola.
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, Fiction, History, Orphans, Pirates, Quakers, Seafaring life, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Orphans, fiction, Philadelphia (pa.), fiction, Atlantic coast, Pirates, fiction, Haiti, fiction, Dominican republic, fiction
Places: Atlantic Coast (U.S.), Hispaniola, Philadelphia (Pa.)
Time periods: 18th century