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Aweigh on a Windjammer by Nan Denker

No lad was ever greener than Dick Dykstra as he set out to trek across the African veldt to Cape Town, where he signed for his first cruise on an English merchantman. In the years that follow, as a sea-faring man in that fascinating region known as “Down-under,” he learns the give and take of the men who sail the seven seas.

Join his adventures as he sails from Cape Town to Liverpool, and on to New Zealand’s Half Moon Bay. From newcomer to ship’s mate, Dick learns how to hunt whales, pan for gold, and survive abandonment on the Macquarie Islands thanks to mutton birds. And all because of a ship in a bottle!

From Nan Denker, the author of The Bound Girl. For readers age 11 and older.