Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

A framed maritime narrative assembles navigators' records into a first-person account of voyages across the southern oceans. The narrator recounts shipboard life, capture and captivity among island peoples, violent encounters with hostile tribes, and confrontations with enormous marine creatures and other strange natural phenomena. Episodes include exploration of remote isles, mutiny and marooning, ritual dangers and daring escapes, curious pictographs and treasure-seeking, and repeated returns to familiar ports interrupted by further perilous expeditions and personal reckonings.