Smuggler's Luck

Stackpole, Edouard A.

ISBN 10: 0961298456 / ISBN 13: 9780961298456

Published by Mill Hill Press, Nantucket, Ma., 2005

About this Item

First reprint edition in fine, as new condition. First published in 1931. Fictional account of the effects of the American Revolution to the people of Nantucket Island, as seen through the eyes of a young boy. 310 pp. Fiction, Historic, Nantucket Island.

Seller Inventory # 005839

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Smuggler's Luck
• Publisher: Mill Hill Press, Nantucket, Ma.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961298456
• ISBN 13: 9780961298456
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Rodgers, Richard
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Originally published in 1931, Smuggler's Luck recounts the adventures of a Nantucket boy during the American Revolution. Nantucket in those lean and hazardous years lay between the devil and the deep blue sea, with the British navy ready with ruthless retaliations against the islanders for any favor shown the Patriot cause. The Patriots, on the other hand, threatened to cut off supplies to the islanders if they sided with the British.

In this story Edouard Stackpole, the late dean of Nantucket Historians, chronicles that exciting and perilous era through the experiences of young Timothy Pinkham and the Stormy Petrel. In a yarn that has entertained and inspired traders for over seventy years, Timothy's adventures, afloat and ashore, involve a voyage to the Caribbean, mysterious doings in the hideouts of secertive islander Keziah Coffin, and high-steaks politics involving Tories, Patriots and even the Continental Congress.

About the Author

Edouard A. Stackpole (1903-1993) is the author of a bookshelf's worth of important works of Nantucket and maritime history, including The Sea Hunters (1953) and Whales and Destiny (1972). He was for many years the director of the Peter Foulger Museum of the Nantucket Historical Association and was curator of Mystic Seaport from 1952 until 1966. In addition to Smuggler's Luck, Edouard Stackpole's works for juvenile readers include YOU FIGHT FOR TREASURE (1932) and MADAGASCAR JACK (1935)