Jack Holborn

By Leon Garfield

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Boys, fiction, Stowaways, Fiction, Orphans, Juvenile fiction, Pirates, Adventure and adventurers, English Adventure stories

Description: Abandoned as a baby and brought up on parish charity, Jack Holborn longs to leave cold-hearted England. So he stows away on a ship bound for Africa, but discovers, too late, that he has fallen in with a pirate crew. This tale of non-stop adventure was Leon Garfield's first published book.