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Sail Ho!, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21366]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Sail Ho! or, A Boy at Sea, by George Manville Fenn.
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This appears to be one of Fenn's later novels, and is just as exciting and full of tension as are his earlier ones. The hero is a seventeen-year-old boy called Alison Dale. We have never heard of a boy called Alison before, but this one is pretty tough, and already knew a lot about seamanship even before he went to sea, on account of having often sailed in his father's large yachts.
Hopefully most boys on their first cruise to sea won't have anything like the adventures that befell Master Alison. The skipper was not a pleasant man, and there was a mutiny, led by a nasty piece of work called Jarette, who was half-French.
The story progresses through various degrees of terror, beginning when the ship is taken over by the mutineers, leaving the passengers and officers isolated. Finally most of the latter are cast adrift to die, but leaving two of their number on board. Attempts are made to res