A High Wind in Jamaica

The author's first novel. A wonderful hybrid of children, pirates, hurricanes, the tropics and a hard look at what children are capable when placed in a particular set of circumstances. First published in America as The Innocent Voyage, this title later that year in England, and the second American edition followed suit; signed by the author on the half-title.

Publisher: Chatto and Windus. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Fine in very good dustwrapper darkened on the spine, nicked at the crown and with a couple of chips


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