Synopses & Reviews
At thirteen, Tom Cringle enters the Royal Navy as a midshipman. Assigned at first to service in home water, Tom is soon transferred to the exotic Caribbean where war, piracy, smuggling, and slave running are the order of the day.
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"Said to rank with or surpass . . . Cooper and Marryat." —The World's Best Books
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"One of the most accurate pictures of West Indian life, both afloat and on shore, during the early part of the nineteenth century." —Reader's Digest of Books
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Among the dozen or so masterpieces of the sea, none will start young blood quicker or give a more real and fascinating picture of early 19th century sea life than this famous log by Micheal Scott. The hero of the tale, Tom Cringle, is, in the opening chapter, an English midshipman thirteen years old. Assigned at first to service in home waters, he is soon transferred to the West Indies where war, piracy, smuggling, and slave-running are the order of the day. Tom later advances to captain with a command of his own -- the audacious little Wasp.
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In the West INdies, where war, piracy, smuggling, and slave running are the order of the day, the hero of this tale advances from midshipman to lieutenant to a command of his own: the audacious little Wasp.