Edition |
First world edition. |
Description |
267 pages ; 23 cm |
Summary |
Don Iago Fernandez barely survives a shipwreck that leaves him a prisoner in a remote area of China. Eventually, he escapes to the Philippines and negotiates passage on the Santa Margarita, a New Spain--bound ship carrying 300 passengers, among them soldiers, priests, prostitutes, merchants, and seamen. As a seafarer with years of experience, Don Iago knows the ship is overcrowded and overloaded, so he's prepared for problems, but even he can't predict the 40 typhoons and hurricanes that will batter the boat and force it to spend more than six months covering less than a quarter of its intended journey. Nor can he know that the crew and passengers will suffer tragedy and terrible deprivation, be ravaged by illness, undergo mutiny, and end up shipwrecked on an island populated by violent savages. |
Subject |
Shipwrecks -- Fiction.
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Typhoons -- Fiction.
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Galleons -- Fiction.
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Sea stories.
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ISBN |
9780727867230 |
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9781847511027 trade pbk. |
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0727867237 |
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