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Hawes, Charles Boardman,
1889-1923.
The dark frigate
[Book] /
by Charles Boardman Hawes ; [decorations by Warren Chappell].
Boston :
Little, Brown,
[1996]
xiii, 246 p. ;
19 cm.
"Wherein is told the story of Philip Marsham who lived in the time of King Charles and was bred a sailor but came home to England after many hazards by sea and land and fought for the King at Newbury and lost a great inheritance and departed for Barbadosin the same ship, by curious chance, in which he had long before adventured with the pirates.".
In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
"Age 12 and up"--P. [4] of cover.
20130322.
Orphans
Fiction.
Pirates
Fiction.
Sea stories.
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