Jim is chief mate on the steamship Patna. During a voyage towards Mecca, with its cargo of pilgrims, disaster occurs when the ship strikes a submerged object.
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involv...
J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis are but successors to William Morris. Tale of quest, adventure, magic and war set in an invented age and in the invented world of t...