Wreck of the Wild Wave, The / Petty, Thurman C Jr / (PB/1991-1991/AUS/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: Book is in good condition and clean inside, with an inscription inside the front cover by the author.*

"Breakers dead ahead!"
The night watchman's cry shattered the captain's tranquility. He whirled about and lunged for the helm. "Hard to port!" he barked, helping the helmsman spin the wheel.
Sailors who moments before had been sleeping in their hammocks now scrambled up the ladders onto the deck.
"Harder to port! Harder to port!" shouted the bow watchman. "She's going to hi-!"
With a thunderous grinding and splintering, the bow rose high in the air. Everything on board lurched forward as the ship came to a jolting halt. . . .

The Wild Wave, a 1,500-ton clipper ship, left San Francisco en route to New York and Boston on February 9, 1858.
It never made it.
Bestselling author Thurman C. Petty captures the drama of the Wild Wave's shipwreck on Oeno Island (one of the Pitcairn group) and uses Captain J. N. Knowles's personal journal to reconstruct an incredible story of survival and rescue.
Eighteen years later, this same captain would return to his one-time island prison with the first SDA literature for the inhabitants of Pitcairn.

Chapter 1 The Glory of the Seas
Chapter 2 Breakers Dead Ahead
Chapter 3 The Castaways
Chapter 4 Desperate Journey
Chapter 5 Stranded Again
Chapter 6 Plans for Escape
Chapter 7 "We'll Be Off Soon"
Chapter 8 The Voyage of John Adams
Chapter 9 A Parcel for Pitcairn
Chapter 10 Epilogue

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