My Shipmate

Danny Jones, a skeptical college sophomore, is publicly humiliated in history class for questioning the heroic legend of Columbus and the reliability of "facts." When he learns that his eccentric Uncle Averill has died and left him an unnamed inheritance, Danny begins to see a pattern: his uncle, too, distrusted official history and lived by strange, secretive convictions. Traveling to Florida, Danny discovers that Averill's legacy is not money or land, but a sealed steamer trunk and a final challenge to everything he thinks he knows. Inside the trunk is a tape recorder and a revelation that turns inheritance into adventure: Averill's "machine" is a time-travel device powered by faith in doubt and a refusal to accept conventional truth. Skeptical but intrigued, Danny follows his uncle's impossible instructions and is flung into the past, where he awakens in another man's body amid the world of Christopher Columbus. Thrust into taverns, conflict, and danger, Danny must fight to protect a young woman, navigate the tensions surrounding Columbus's voyage, and decide whether belief itself can change history. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.