Wake of the Perdido Star

Now in trade paperback and ebook for the first time. A classic tale of survival and revenge, this rousing novel of men, sailing ships, shipwrecks, pirates, and the sea, set in the early 1800s, is full of authentic nautical and historical detail, especially about diving and salvage operations of the period. It follows the exploits of Jack O'Reilly, a 17-year-old New England boy struggling toward manhood, whose sea adventures over three years take him to Cuba, around Cape Horn, to the South Sea islands, the Philippines, around the Cape of Good Hope, and finally back to Cuba and the Americas. "Wake of the Perdido Star" is at once a morality tale, an action-packed saga of heroism, camaraderie and survival, and a historical treatment of men at sea two hundred years ago.