Description
After the death of his father, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left impoverished. Though, the Saint Legers have a family mystery, a forefather is thought to have kept an enormous wealth in gold and gems some place in the Eastern Seas. The problem is all tracks are coded. Nonetheless, Captain Saint Leger chooses to take a risk and voyages east. A sail filled with loads of mishaps starts, such as pirates, disasters and riot. This is a spectacular novel, wonderfully created, with a heavy naval contextual. The lead character’s family, which had a very lengthy marine custom, was a tad less of money. But there was a tale narrated in the family that a few centuries before a forefather of his had searched a deserted ship which appeared to have a large quantity of gold and gems. He had hidden this in a secret place on an islet in the Far East, marking paths for searching it in code some place in his home in England. Our protagonist looks for the paper with the code after a vast hunt in the cottage, and goes to search the hidden wealth, although he had not yet decoded the directions. Harry Collingwood is the fictitious name of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster, the son of a Royal Navy captain and studied at the Naval College, Greenwich. He was at the deep when he was 15 years old but had to quit his Royal Navy profession because of grave myopia. From 1886 to 1913, while laboring as a marine engineer majoring in harbor design, he penned 23 marine based books such as Harry Collingwood which privileged his idol Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Nelson’s second in command at Trafalgar. A few of his novels are depicted as stories for the young ones and those who are children at heart.
Product ID: 9781776726097
Sku: QV-VVEA-YLV5
