This is an sea story about Seymour, a mouse who finds himself on a British Navy sailing ship, the Revenge, under the command of Sir Francis Drake in the early 1590's, heading for the Pacific Ocean to fight the Spanish. He has never been on a ship before, much less a naval vessel, and he has quite a lot of adjusting to do, both with the crew and the mice that are aboard. As Seymour adjusts to life upon a naval vessel, he realizes that something amazing has happened: not only can he understand the other mice that live aboard, he can understand the Captain and his crew When the sailors discover...