Sink or swim; or, Harry Raymond's resolve

By Horatio Alger, Jr.

Subjects: Swindlers and swindling, Ocean travel, Gold mines and mining, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Conduct of life, Juvenile fiction, Shanghaiing, History, New york (n.y.), fiction, Australia, fiction

Description: After the death of his carpenter father, fifteen-year-old Harry Raymond, now the sole support of his mother and younger sister, finds his plans for a business career in New York City overturned when his discovery of a fraudulent insurrance scheme leads to his kidnapping and forced indenture on a ship bound for China.