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The Adventures of the Ballahoo: The Ballahoo and the Isle of Thunder
Paperback
Series: The Voyages of the Ballahoo, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 6 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the deepest of blue you'll find an island in the wind. With shores as steep as castle walls. There you will find those giant dragons that stand the size of four humans, and eggs that are larger than a human head. The Kili king will pay your weight in gold for each egg that you bring back...
Roop is fourteen years old. He has been a cabin boy aboard the merchantman Ballahoo for three years, taken from a portside orphanage by a captain who saw something in his thinking eyes that no one else had bothered to look for. He has learned the ropes, the knots, the watches, and the names of all six cannons. He has not, until now, sailed for a dragon.
When an old man on a jungle quay whispers a secret kept in his family for seven generations, Captain Tymothius Manik turns the Ballahoo south-southeast into seas no European has charted, where the wind carries the calls of giants and the price of an egg is a man's weight in gold.
What lies between Roop and that lagoon is everything the Captain has ever told him about over the long fair-weather watches: pirates with red eyes painted on their bows, a watcher in the deep that takes boys from rails on calm nights, hidden islanders who draw warnings in the sand, and the slow patient terror of a thing that is not quite a dragon, but something older, larger, and far more angry than any story prepared them for.
Told in the plainspoken voice of the boy himself, looking back on the voyage that made him a sailor, The Ballahoo and the Isle of Thunder is a long-form adventure novella in the tradition of Treasure Island and Master and Commander, where every sea-tale told at the wheel becomes flesh before the next port, and where surviving a thing once is only the beginning.
What you'll find inside:- Sixteen chapters of fully fleshed seafaring adventure
- A crew of thirteen drawn from across the Indian Ocean world
- Three full-length sea-tales told by the Captain at the wheel, each paying off in the action
- An exotic Eastern setting of jungle ports, hidden lagoons, and uncharted blue
- A cliffhanger ending that sets up the continuing series
- Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
- Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels
- Avi's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
- Classic seafaring adventure with a fantasy edge
Ages 12 and up. Adventure / Fantasy / Coming of Age.
The voyage has just begun.
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