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Lyme, Connecticut, early on nineteenth hundred years. Elisha Ely Morgan is a young farm boy who have observed firsthand the terror of the Warfare of 1812. Stressed by a tumultuous home life ruled by the fists with their tempestuous dad, Ely's two aged brothers have both left their pastoral boyhoods to seek manhood through sailing. One afternoon, the Morgan family will get a letter with the news headlines that one brother is lost at sea; the other is believed to be dead. Scrimping as much savings as a farm boy can muster, Ely spends almost every penny he must become a sailor over a square-rigged ship, over a route from New York to London - a option he hopes will lead to his vanished brother, Abraham. Learning the brutal trade of a sailor, Ely takes quickly to sea-life, but his emphasis is with finding Abraham. Carrying out a group of cryptic clues regarding his brother's destiny, Ely becomes entrenched in a puzzle deeper than he can see right now. As he seems himself drawing closer to an answer, Ely climbs the rates to become a captain, experiences romance, encounters a mutiny, complies with Queen Victoria, and befriends historical legends such as Charles Dickens in his raucous quest.
