Yorke the Adventurer single work   novella  
Issue Details: First known date: 1901... 1901 Yorke the Adventurer
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A trading ship discovers Yorke aboard his damaged ship and learns that all of his crew have been killed in a massacre in New Ireland. Yorke is helped to partially repair his ship and he joins the narrator, Drake, and a party of men searching for pearl shell. When a hurricane maroons Drake and Yorke on an island, Yorke reveals the rest of his story.

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First known date: 1901
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