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Among Malay Pirates: A Tale of Adventure and Peril
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515422464
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A fast-moving tale of pirates, danger, pursuit, and courage, Among Malay Pirates brings G. A. Henty's classic adventure storytelling to the seas of Southeast Asia.
Set amid colonial-era conflict, sea travel, and sudden peril, Among Malay Pirates follows young men facing capture, danger, and violent outlaws in a world where quick thinking and physical courage can mean the difference between survival and disaster. Henty's fiction was written for readers who wanted history, action, moral testing, and adventure in direct, vigorous prose, and this title delivers exactly that: boats, raids, escapes, hostile shores, dangerous enemies, and boys forced to prove themselves under pressure.
Like many of Henty's adventure stories, Among Malay Pirates reflects the assumptions and imperial attitudes of the nineteenth century. It should be read as a historical boys' adventure from its period, not as a modern account of Southeast Asia. Its continuing interest lies in its pace, its maritime danger, its place in Victorian juvenile fiction, and its connection to one of the most prolific adventure writers of the age.
This Wilder Publications edition is suited to readers of classic adventure fiction, juvenile historical fiction, pirate stories, sea adventures, nineteenth-century boys' fiction, and the work of G. A. Henty.
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