Title: Geoffrey Household Esq., Prisoner of the Indies
First published: 1972
Description: Recounts the fifteen-year voyage of Miles Philips who signed on as a cabin boy with John Hawkins on a voyage to New Spain. There he chose to stay ashore with several comrades, to avoid the scurvy and starvation of ship life, preferring to face the perils of the Inquisition as an Englishman on sixteenth century Spanish soil.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Sea stories, Discovery and exploration, Children's stories, Fiction, historical, general
Places: America
People: Miles Philips (fl. 1568-1582)