Charles Boardman Hawes

From the Newbery Medal Winning Author Of The Dark Frigate, The Mutineers is a tale of old days at Sea and of Adventures in the Far East. Strange events happened in our first month at sea-events so subtle as perhaps to seem an unimportant part of this narrative of a strange voyage, yet really as necessary to the foundation of the story as the single bricks and the single dabs of mortar at the base of a tall chimney are necessary to the completed structure....

The story opens in Massachusetts in 1826. After Neal Gleazen unexpectedly returns to town, he involves childhood friend Seth Woods and Seth's nephew, twenty-year-old Joe, in a dangerous sea journey to retrieve a hidden treasure. But, everything is not as it seems and Joe and Seth must come to terms with the truth and make the right choices or all will be lost. A Newbury Medal Nominee

A young man dares not return to England after his ship is taken over by pirates and he becomes a member of their crew.

"Wherein are discussed the first whalemen of whom we have record; the growth of the European whaling industry, and of its offspring, the American whaling industry; primitive whaling among the savages of North America; the various manners and means of taking whales in all parts of the world and in all time of its history; the extraordinary adventures and mishaps that have befallen whalemen the seas over; the economic and social conditions that led...