'To capture the hard life of sailors in the wooden sailing ships of the eighteenth century much of the story is seen through the eyes of a young woman who, disguised as a lad wins a place in the crew of a ship that is bound for the South Seas.
In those day women as crew on ships was unheard of particularly on naval vessels. It was thought that women on ships could only cause trouble. She does this to get away from her life in Portsmouth, England, in which she sees no future but a bleak existence in a cold climate.
She and the rest of the crew set out on an amazing adventure where they experience the customs and love life of the Polynesian people, they learn about tribal warfare, cannibalism and a way of life completely different to that in Europe. They are caught up in a mutiny and two of the crew are marooned on an island in the Fijis from which they manage to escape aided by a survivor from one of the earlier Captain Cook voyages. The three take part in a harrowing canoe trip back to Samoa with only the stars to guide them. They are eventually rescued by the Pandora which had actually been sent from England to search for the Bounty mutineers.
Our heroine survives it all and arrives back in cold old England glad to be home after all. A tale of tall ships, rascals, a love story and as always, survivors against all the odds.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)
