The Great Quest

by Charles Hawes

Overview

"A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633558960
Publisher:	Start Classics
Publication date:	02/13/2015
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	373 KB
Age Range:	6 - 18 Years

About the Author

Charles Boardman Hawes (January 24, 1889 - July 16, 1923) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel The Dark Frigate (1923) as the year's best American children's book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, The New York Times observed that "his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville"