Captain Shelby
Author: Jesse Giles Christiansen
Publisher: Imajin Books
Pages: 211
Genre: Literary Fiction/Magical Realism
Format: Kindle
Book Summary:
There
are places even the sea cannot go…
In coastal Denmark, a young man named Nereus builds a longship and leaves
at age eighteen to discover a new, enigmatic land. Faced with unimaginable
obstacles, he crosses the North Atlantic, only to be captured by the
Skraelings, the Inuit indigenous people who seek revenge on all settlers
because of a "Great Red Man" who murdered many of their family
members.
A few years later, Nereus is hired by a group of Irish settlers who are
fleeing the tyranny of King Henry VIII, and he takes them across the North
Atlantic to the New Found Land. A fierce battle ensues against the sea, the
Little Ice Age, and the vicious Skraelings.
When Nereus falls in love with Laura Hodges, fiancĂ©e to the group’s leader,
William Brockelby, he becomes embroiled in a dangerous love triangle…until the
formidable mystery surrounding Captain Nereus H. Shelby is finally revealed.
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