Caesar's Passage
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Smyth, Andrew
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0-9542270-0-X
Calypso Press
2002
257
1
L11
In Stock
Smyth, Andrew
Book
0-9542270-0-X
Calypso Press
2002
257
1
L11
In Stock
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12/11/2002 Publisher: Calypso Press, 2002 £ 12.95
Set in the 1860s, Milo Beran, aged 12, is forced to leave his idyllic island home in the Adriatic to go to sea. Sailing much of the world under captains good and bad with many adventures en route, he finally lands in Peru where he is unjustly imprisoned.
Released on a whim by a local plantation owner who takes him under his wing, he gains an education and then establishes himself against the odds as king of the nitrate business whilst saving both the wife and wealth of his benefactor. The story is resolved with his return to Europe under significantly different circumstances from those at his departure.
Andrew Smyth was inspired to write this his first book when sailing around the Dalmatian coast and discovering a ruined mansion on the island of Šipan a dozen miles from Dubrovnik. The good guys are good and the bad guys bad, and Milo himself shows luck and leadership beyond his years in this adventure story. - AMB
