The toilers of the sea
(2016)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Read Books Ltd. : Made available through hoopla, 2016
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781473350328 (electronic bk.) MWT11835077, 1473350328 (electronic bk.) 11835077
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Gilliatt, a Guernseyman and social pariah, falls in love with Deruchette, the niece of a local shipowner called Mess Lethierry. After Lethierry's ship is destroyed on a dangerous reef, Deruchette commits to marry whoever can return with the ship's engine. Gilliatt nominates himself, and the story follows his physical travails and the approbation of his neighbors during his quest to retrieve the engine
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