The Adventures of Captain Horn is an 1895 adventure novel by Frank R. Stockton. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, it was the third-best selling book in the United States in 1895. A sequel, Mrs. Cliff's Yacht, was released in 1897.
Summary
In the early spring of 1884, the three-masted schooner Castor, en route from San Francisco to Valparaiso, encountered a violent tornado off the coast of Peru. The storm, which struck with terrifying swiftness, was brief but devastating. It left the Castor in ruins, her masts snapped and lost overboard, her rudder shattered by the falling debris. The ship was left adrift, rolling in the sea's trough as the floating remnants of her masts and spars battered against her sides.
References
- Alice Payne Hackett. Seventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965, p. 91 (1967)
- Zipes, Jack. When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, Second Edition, p. 192 (2007)
- A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXV: Southey-Suetonius, p. 13991 (1898?)
- ^ (2 June 1895). Novel of Early Summer (book review), The New York Times
External links
- The Adventures of Captain Horn full text at Project Gutenberg
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