Book · 1929 · Fiction

A High Wind in Jamaica

Name: A High Wind in Jamaica
Author: Richard Hughes

New York Review Books · 279 pages

★ 5.0 editorial score

A hurricane wrecks their Jamaican home, so the Bas-Thornton children are shipped to England and captured by pirates. Hughes strips childhood of its innocence, and the pirates prove no match for them.

Genre

Sea story

Medium

Novel

Subject

Pirates Change Childhood

Setting

Saint Lucia

Time

1929Depicts 19th century

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