The Cruise of the Esmeralda
"The Cruise of the Esmeralda" from Harry Collingwood. An author of nautical and piratical fiction (1851-1922).
Harry Collingwood was the pseudonym of William Joseph Cosens Lancaster (23 May 1843 - 22 June 1922), a British civil engineer and novelist who wrote over 40 boys' adventure books, almost all of them in a nautical setting. Collingwood's first novel in 1878, the year of his marriage,...