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When 13 year-old Charlotte Doyle boarded the Seahawk in June of 1832, she never dreamed that the crew would mutiny and that her life would be in danger.

A parable of patriotism, written at the height of the Civil War, which tells the story of Philip Nolan, a young officer who, while on trial for misconduct, expresses a wish never to hear of the United States again, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life on board a ship, barred from any news of home.

"In the 1830s Owen Ward is cabin boy on the "Polaris," a ship on a voyage of scientific exploration, when illness and a mutiny off the coast of Brazil cause the adult crew to abandon the ship, leaving the handful of young cabin attendants and deckhands behind.

When ten-year-old Alice Bradford is found hiding on Captain Boswell's pirate ship, she expects the captain to kill her.