The unfortunate son

By Constance Leeds

Subjects: Human Abnormalities, Identity, Slavery, Luck, Historical fiction, Fishing, Kidnapping, Fiction, Fortune, Juvenile fiction, History, Identity (Psychology), Fishing stories

Description: Luc, a youth born with one ear and raised by a drunken father in fifteenth-century France, finds a better home with fisherman Pons, his sister Mattie, and their ward Beatrice, the daughter of a disgraced knight, and even after being kidnapped and sold into slavery in Africa, he remains remarkably fortunate.