Ship of fire

By Michael Cadnum

Subjects: Physicians, Great Britain in fiction, Drake, Francis, in fiction, Seafaring life, Apprentices, fiction, Apprentices, Apprentices in fiction, Drake, francis, approximately 1540-1596, fiction, Physicians, fiction, Seafaring life in fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Physicians in fiction, Great britain, history, tudors, 1485-1603, fiction, History

Description: In 1587, sailing to Spain on board Sir Francis Drake's ship "Elizabeth Bonaventure," seventeen-year-old surgeon's apprentice Thomas Spyre finds that, with the sudden death of his master, he must take over as ship's surgeon and prove his skill not only as a doctor but also as a fighter when he is enlisted by Drake to face battle.