Slant of the Wild Wind

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Synopsis
Above all else, Captain Gordon Redd loved his ship, Lady of Glasgow; then he met proud and beautiful Martha van Oren, daughter of his shipowner employer. Here was a woman volatile as the wind and determined to save her family name from disgrace—and Redd was to gamble his command and a lifetime career for her, whom he could not hope to possess. Laden to the gunwales with thrills and exciting incident, this lightning- paced, lusty adventure story is set in Sydney, Singapore, the romantic Far Eastern islands, and the treacherous seas between. Acting on verbal instructions from Sir George van Oren, Captain Redd overtook the Castlereagh en route to England and removed seven boxes of ore to his own ship. One of these boxes contained stolen gold. Arraigned in a naval court on the charge of piracy, Redd found himself the pawn in a gigantic financial scandal which threatened Sydney’s greatest business interests. He skillfully evaded this charge and sailed for Singapore with an illegal passenger on board a the government schooner Upstaxp, pursuit. With daredevil seamanship, however, he outmaneuvered the other vessel and made good a temporary escape. On a reckless trading venture, Redd brought the Lady of Glasgow to the Island of Gold, a mysterious land peopled by head-hunting pagans who revered pigs above their vast treasures of jewels and precious ore. It was on this exotic island that he excited the adoration of the beauteous Willow, accepted from her a sacred ruby, and paid its price in blood. In the palm-fringed lagoon of the Island of Gold, the Lady of Glasgow was finally tracked down, and Captain Redd faced his adversaries and the woman he loved, proving once and for all that the swift, decisive, sometimes cruel action learned on the decks of a sailing ship is far more effective than the schooling of a countinghouse.
Copyright:
1952

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
284 Pages
Publisher:
Doubleday & Company, INC.
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Garland Roark
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Teens, Literature and Fiction
Reading Age:
16 and up
Submitted By:
Melba June Thompson
Proofread By:
Lynn Thompson
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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