All
his life, Jos has seen the tall ships sailing into Port
Louis on the island of Mauritius, where he was born. As he watches them leave
again, disappearing below the horizon, he dreams of one day sailing away with
themto see the world. He thinks about all the adventures he would have, the
ships he would capture and the buried treasure he would find on faraway
islands.
But,
when the young and beautiful Rose de Freycinet arrives on board the Uranie
in 1817, Joss life changes in ways that he had never
imagined. Pirates, cannibals, storms and shipwrecks become harsh realities and
Jos is forced to muster all his courage and
intelligence to survive the dangers of shipboard life.
This is a story of
adventure on the high seas at a time in history when ships sailed the vast
oceans of the world with only the wind to power them.
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