Larry Votava

The Mahogany Ship (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

En route to the family's summer holiday camp at Frigate Bay, Robert Cabriata reads a newspaper report that a shipwreck has been found at the front beach: could the wreck possibly be the fabled Mahogany Ship?
Although the report turns out to be a red herring, the government puts up a reward of fifty thousand dollars to whoever finds the mysterious ship, and Frigate Bay, afloat with tourists, becomes gripped with treasure-hunting.
Robert, swept along by this mystery, gets a spellbinding clue from the elderly campground caretaker, and determines that he will find the Mahogany Ship and claim the reward. But Robert is only thirteen, and finds himself battling a pirate, the peculiar Crabapple boys, and a town full of treasure-seekers. What's more, he has to grapple with his sudden interest in girls, a body raging with hormones, and a world he's unsure of.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Larry Votava
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311320810
• Artikelnr.: 70154479

Autorenporträt

Larry Votava is an Australian author who lives in Ocean Grove, a Victorian coastal town.
His second novel, City on Fire, stems from living in Perth, Western Australia, for twenty-two years. Perth, the most isolated capital city in the world, and one of the wealthiest per capita. And with wealth comes corruption, something the author has seen firsthand. Although a work of fiction, the possibility of certain events in the book actually happening does exist.
His first novel, the Mahogany Ship, although fiction, has some truth to it the legend of the Mahogany Ship does exist, fishermen having sighted the boat high and dry on a beach near Port Fairy Victoria in 1836. There were numerous sightings in the years afterward, but eventually, the shipwreck disappeared into the sand or myth. The author, as a child, holidayed with his family for fourteen years at the caravan park at Port Fairy hence the campground setting. Some of the kids' exploits in the novel are based on fact. As a whole though, the novel is a work of fiction.
At the moment, the author is working on his third novel, The Nullarbor, a journey into the broken heart of Australia's outback wilderness; a journey the author has taken many times throughout his thirty-year career in mineral exploration.
As always, the author's love of the ocean manages to sneak its way into each novel.