This is one of the better books I read during Manly Months here at The Literary Rambler. It's the story of adventure on the seas, of treasure and survival. It starts out with some of the boldest action language I've ever seen.The storm made a loud thunder in the sky, and this tremendous utterance dominated without subduing the many screaming, hissing, shrieking, and hooting noises raised in the rigging and about the decks, and the wild, seething, weltering sound of the sea, maddened by the gale and struggling in its enormous passion under the first choking and iron grip of the hurricane's hand.
That's what W. Clark Russell was known for, and that's why people read him. I first heard about him from the Sherlock Holmes story, The Five Orange Pips, which had Watson reading a Russell book.
