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Tom Cringle's Log
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Michael Scott. |
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McBooks |
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paperback
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| ISBN |
9780935526516 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
511/1998 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
52386 |
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Tom Cringle enters the Royal Navy as a midshipman at age thirteen. Assigned at first to service in home waters, Tom is soon transferred to the exotic Caribbean, where war, piracy, smuggling, and slave running are the order of the day. Cringle swiftly advances to a command of his own—an audacious little ship christened Wasp. Michael Scott (1789-1835) spent much of his life in the West Indies during one of the most dynamic periods in British colonial history. A plantation manager and merchant in Jamaica, his knowledge of Caribbean pirates was first-hand. This book took shape in Scott's mind as a series of maritime and tropical adventure sketches; after they were published anonymously in Blackwood's Magazine, the tales were melded together as a novel in 1834.
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