The Voyage of the Sea Dragon is an adventure story that takes a young Devonshire fisherman on an exciting voyage to the other side of the world. As the young man prepares his boat for sea on a grey July morning in 1725, little does he realise that he will soon be taken on a rip-roaring odyssey to the great Pacific Ocean with a crew of ruthless fortune hunters.

Fierce battles against North African Barbary corsairs French Spanish, as well as warring pirates and south sea anthropophagi; leaves the young man and the crew staring death in the face on numerous occasions. The book describes close...