"As I understand we are to share the cabin for the voyage, I think we should introduce ourselves. My name is Paul, John Paul from Kircudbright in Scotland."

It was in the year 1767 that Nick Young Caryl of Portsmouth, Virginia, first sailed with the twenty-one-year-old Scotsman whose brilliant and impertinent exploits were a decisive factor in the founding of the American Navy. Nick kept a journal in which he set down the colorful details of Jones's spectacular maritime career: the crucial engagement between the Ranger and the Drake in Irish waters, his impudent maraudings up and down the English coast, and the historic battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis. The journal also contains an account of the scientific expedition of the Endeavor I under Captain James Cook, a voyage which qualified Nick as en expert seaman in his own right.

Louise Andrew Kent's fifth book in her unique "He Went With" series (HE WENT WITH MARCO POLO... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS... VASCO DA GAMA... MAGELLAN) is superb recreational reading, and excellent supplementary reading, offering, as it does, authentic history through the exploits of two great maritime figures. Black and white recreations of historic naval battles by Victor Mays extend the action and drama of recorded history.

From the dust jacket