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Martin Conisby, embittered by his five years of slavery on the Spanish galleon Esmeralda, escapes during a sea fight and makes his way back to England, determined to avenge himself on Richard Brandon, who was the cause of his father's death and his own ill-treatment. Broken in body and spirit, he arrives home just in time to save from the hands of robbers a beautiful girl, Lady Joan Brandon, the daughter of the man whom he has sworn to punish. In a tavern he meets… (more)
Language: English
Published in: 1920
Word count: 105,104 words (≈ about 7 hours)
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2424
Copyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is Life+50 or in the USA (published before 1923).
Sailors, pirates, nautical adventures and strange sea creatures: a list of stories from the sea.