Dorymates: A Tale of the Fishing Banks

Found as an infant in a floating cask off the Fishing Banks, Breeze McCloud is pulled from the sea by the crew of a trading schooner and raised by the captain and his wife. What could be a story of abandonment becomes something else entirely: a boy raised on salt air and fishermen's songs, inheriting not a surname but a calling. As Breme grows into a young man, he must prove himself on the dangerous waters where his father made his living, forming friendships with fellow dorymen that will test his courage and loyalty. Munroe, writing in the late nineteenth century, captures a world now vanished: the brutal economics of the fishing trade, the camaraderie of men who gamble their lives against the sea, and the particular loneliness of a boy who grew up between worlds. This is adventure literature at its most earnest, suffused with a romantic's love for the ocean and its rough-hewn workers. For readers who loved nautical classics and stories of found family.