Boston: Little Brown, (1953) dj. Hardcover first edition - Naval historical fiction set in the years after the American Revolution and before the War of 1812. When the impestuous son of a prosperous Maryland farmer almost beats one of the hired hands to death, he is sent to Philadephia to live with oins a Quaker branch of the family that ran a shipping company. Boredom and entanglements with a French woman leads him to take to the sea during the Quasi-War with France, becoming a privateer and later finding his real purpose in life serving aboard the U.S.S. Constellation. 311 pp. Dust jacket by Denver Gillen.