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The Great Quest: A Positronic Book
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515442189
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Nov 15 2019
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An early twentieth-century American sea adventure in which youthful resolve is tested against the discipline and danger of ocean life.
In The Great Quest, Charles Boardman Hawes presents a maritime coming-of-age narrative shaped by hardship, responsibility, and the unyielding realities of the sea. Young men set out in pursuit of fortune and independence, only to discover that ambition must be matched by endurance and moral steadiness.
Hawes renders shipboard life with clarity and restraint, avoiding melodrama while acknowledging the constant presence of risk. The sea is neither romanticised nor diminished; it is the proving ground upon which character is forged. Storm, isolation, and rigid hierarchy challenge the protagonists to measure themselves against both nature and their own limitations.
Representative of early twentieth-century American sea adventure and Newbery-era adventure fiction, The Great Quest stands as a disciplined example of classic maritime storytelling.
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