This record of the Mayflower's last turbulent years, after the remarkable voyage to Plymouth in 1620, dramatizes an era that brimmed over with high-powered excitement and treachery.  

After teenager Tom Bristow, a runaway, answered the lure of the seas and became the Mayflower's cabin boy on the American voyage, he could not desert the three-masted vessel when it docked in England, battered and almost beyond salvage.  After extensive repairs the seaworthy ship, with Tom aboard, again set out for the high seas.  An attack by vicious sea pirates, a battle with a French man-of-war, and a whaling expedition that almost ended in death in the Arctic's "infinite, dreary waste of floating ice" make this a tale to thrill anyone who likes his reading studded with tight-packed action.

In a fine tribute to the immortal ship and to the indominable courage of the men who sailed her, Kenneth Allsop weaves a saga of wartime adventure, desperate pursuit and survival against tremendous odds.  

From the dust jacket