Aweigh on a Windjammer

No lad was ever greener than Dick Dykstra as he sets out to trek across the African veldt to Capetown, where he signs for his first cruise on an English merchantman. In the years that follow, as a sea-faring man in that fascinating region known as “Down-under” he learns the give and take of the men who sail the seven seas. Join his adventures as he sails from Capetown to Liverpool, and on to New Zealand’s Half Moon Bay. From newcomer to ship’s mate, Dick learns how to hunt whales, pan for gold, and survive abandonment on the Macquarie Islands thanks to mutton birds. And all because of a ship in a bottle!