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A high wind in Jamaica [by] Richard Hughes.

By:

Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976

Publication details: London, Chatto and Windus, 1929.Description: 283 pages 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

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Additional physical formats: High wind in Jamaica.DDC classification:

823.91 HUG

LOC classification:

PZ3.H8735 Hi PR6015.U35
H83.337R 1929 1.1

Action note:

Collated 20010629 Damaged

Summary: This novel chronicles two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience. After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set upon by pirates, and the children are accidentally transferred to the pirate vessel. Jonsen, the well-meaning pirate captain, doesn't know how to dispose of his new cargo, while the children adjust with surprising ease to their new life. As this strange company drifts around the Caribbean, events turn more frightening and the pirates find themselves increasingly incriminated by the children's fates. The most shocking betrayal, however, will take place only after the return to civilization.

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American edition (Harper & brothers) has title: The innocent voyage.

Collated 20010629 Damaged UkLNAL

This novel chronicles two sensitive children's violent voyage from innocence to experience. After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set upon by pirates, and the children are accidentally transferred to the pirate vessel. Jonsen, the well-meaning pirate captain, doesn't know how to dispose of his new cargo, while the children adjust with surprising ease to their new life. As this strange company drifts around the Caribbean, events turn more frightening and the pirates find themselves increasingly incriminated by the children's fates. The most shocking betrayal, however, will take place only after the return to civilization.