The Adventures of Captain Horn

by Frank R Stockton, 1stworld Library (Editor)

Overview

Early in the spring of the year 1884 the three-masted schooner Castor from San Francisco to Valparaiso was struck by a tornado off the coast of Peru. The storm which rose with frightful suddenness was of short duration but it left the Castor a helpless wreck. Her masts had snapped off and gone overboard her rudder-post had been shattered by falling wreckage and she was rolling in the trough of the sea with her floating masts and spars thumping and bumping her sides.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421841564
Publisher:	1st World Library
Publication date:	06/15/2007
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 - April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.