01286cam a2200265 i 4500 423467772 TxGeo 20200416120000.0 800228t19781928||||||||||||||||||||eng|u (OCoLC)19872579 TxGeo rda Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976. A high wind in Jamaica : or the innocent voyage / by Richard Hughes ; with a foreword by Vernon Watkins. Mattituck, NY : Aeonian Press, 1978. ©1928. 191 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The dreamlike action of this masterpiece begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late-nineteenth-century Jamaica before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A best seller when it was first published in 1929, A High Wind in Jamaica was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the one hundred best novels of the twentieth century. 20200416. Pirates Fiction. Sea fiction. QS5