Dead reckoning

By Laurie Lawlor

Subjects: Seafaring life, Explorers, Explorers, fiction, Drake, francis, approximately 1540-1596, fiction, Survival, Orphans, fiction, Pirates, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Orphans, Juvenile fiction, Pirates

Description: Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the Golden Hind--the ship of his cousin, the explorer and pirate Francis Drake--on its three-year circumnavigation of the world.