A High Wind in Jamaica - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard Hughes, Mint Editions (Contribution by)Publish date:11/11/2025Pages:182
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mint EditionsISBN-13:9798888976944UPC:9798888976944Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sea Stories, Action & Adventure, World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC3PVYJM94
A High Wind in Jamaica
When the five Bas-Thornton children embark on an ocean voyage from their Jamaican plantation to England, their ship is captured by pirates. Rather than portraying them as helpless victims, Richard Hughes delves into the complex psychological effects of their captivity, revealing them to be morally ambiguous and more than capable of violent actions. Still echoing through other modern classics, A...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mint EditionsISBN-13:9798888976944UPC:9798888976944Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Sea Stories, Action & Adventure, World LiteratureBook Topic:EnglandSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.42 inchesWeight:0.4101Product ID:SC3PVYJM94
Hughes, Richard: - Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (1900-1976) was a British writer born in Surrey and educated at Charterhouse and Oriel College, Oxford. Best known for his startling debut novel, A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) (also published as The Innocent Voyage), Hughes flipped conventional adventure tropes by portraying children captured by pirates as morally ambiguous--often more so than their...
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