New York: St Martin's, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of a secret voyage along the coast of South America in 1858. "From the beginning there were complications . . a story of the sea that touches on one of the most bizarre mutinies in maritime history and gives an authentic account of the nightmare horrors of a Cape Horn passage. Some of the most dramatic moments of the novel, including the descent of a plague of locusts, are drawn from Alun Richard's vast knowledge of sea records of the past." 221 pp. ISBN: 0-312067070.