Showing results for "The Shipwreck" in Historical Fiction

London, 1820: 19-year-old Mercy, the orphaned daughter of an African prince, has come to live with the well-to-do Dr Stephens and his wife, Catherine, a passionate campaigner for the abolition of slavery. Mercy throws herself into Catherine’s work, eager to help until - at an exhibition that has all of London talking - one particular painting makes a disturbing impression on her: conjuring vivid images of creaking wood and the screams of drowning people. Its effect on Dr Stephens is even stronger - a connection that seems almost personal.

The adventures of the mischievous young midshipman Percival Keene begin when he learns that the demanding Captain Delmar, a member of the wealthy and titled De Versely family, is actually his natural father. Stung by his father's refusal to acknowledge him, Keene sets about to win his father's love and acceptance and gain the family fortune. To do so, Keene survives shipwreck and capture by murderous pirates, fights duels of honor with his fellow officers, and battles against the French.

Shipwreck of Hopes sweeps the listener from a desolate Fire Island beach in America, across the Atlantic to war-torn Italy to tell a story of shipwreck, deception, thievery, and murder on treacherous seas, in bloody revolution, and on an isolated shore. Drawing inventively on the lives that converged with the fate of the ship Elizabeth in 1850, the novel goes beyond biography to reveal the harrowing journeys of those involved on that desperate day.

Laura Callaway sale a pasear todos los días por la playa, en la costa de Cornualles, una zona conocida por los muchos naufragios que allí se producen y por los pocos supervivientes que quedan. Ella misma, que es huérfana y vive con su tío, un párroco casado con una mujer a la que poco importa, se siente como un náufrago, pues es huérfana y esa casa no es su hogar.

Alonso Truylos and his three friends are out to find adventure wherever it exists. As soldiers, these men sail to the New World. As time goes on, events and occurrences reshape their relationships. Alonso Truylos finds himself going deeper into this strange New World, eventually, joining a galleon in the hopes of attaining riches, only to discover how life really works.