Aldrick is obsessed with finding his grandfather's treasure. More than half a century and seventeen voyages have failed to locate his ships after they wrecked in Windward Passage, deeply-laden with pirate plunder and homeward-bound from the Caribbean in 1679.
Elizabeth, the firstborn of Baron Leigh, was raised in Warwickshire, about as far from the sea as is possible in Britain. Recently betrothed to Aldrick, she doesn't want him to sail out of her life.
We begin the story as Aldrick escorts Elizabeth to meet his eighty-five-year-old grandfather.
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- Introductory Matter
- 1. The Montfords
- 2. Meeting Grandfather
- 3. Maps and Plans
- 4. Of Ships and Crew
- 5. Details and Complications
- 6. Of Coming Together
- 7. North from London
- 8. Into the Midlands
- 9. St Albans and Onward
- 10. Of Wisdom and Kindness
- 11. Stoneleigh Abbey
- 12. The Baron Leigh Family
- 13. Of Love and Marriage
- 14. Of Maps and Plots
- 15. Of Position and Comfort
- 16. Fit-out and Aboard
- 17. To Sea
- 18. Sea Trials
- 19. Evening Aboard
- 20. From Trial to Reality
- 21. Southward
- 22. Westward
- 23. After the Storm
- 24. Landfall
- 25. Islands and Moonlight
- 26. The Anchorage
- 27. Shipwreck
- 28. Roar as a Lion
- 29. Dawn Ashore
- 30. Roberts
- 31. The Delfe Treasure
- 32. Decisions
- 33. To Sea Again
- 34. The Route Onward
- 35. Toward Shelter
- 36. Haven
- 37. Calm in the Storm
- 38. Recognitions
- 39. Sharing with the Crew
- 40. The Measure of a Man
- 41. Gambolling Ashore
- 42. The French
- 43. Of Baring All
- 44. Of Crew and Tails
- 45. Southward Again
- 46. Toward Jamaica
- 47. Port Royal and Kingston
- 48. Complications
- 49. The Red Lion
- 50. Captain Peters
- 51. Resolution
- 52. Realisations
- 53. Of Independence
- 54. New Beginnings
- 55. An Evening Ashore
- 56. The Governor
- 57. Northward
- 58. Distress
- 59. Rescue
- 60. Truthful Deceit
- 61. Return to Treasure Island
- 62. Homeward
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