The Quest of the 'Golden Hope': A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure
1912
The Quest of the 'Golden Hope': A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure
1912
The year is 1685. The Monmouth Rebellion has crumbled at Sedgemoor, and soldiers sweep the New Forest hunting the Duke's scattered supporters. Sixteen-year-old Clifford Hammond and his sister Constance have lived quietly on the forest's edge, until they stumble upon Captain Jeremy Miles, a wounded rebel bleeding through the undergrowth, fleeing for his life. What begins as an act of desperate mercy plunges the siblings into political turmoil far beyond their sheltered existence. Westerman builds his adventure on genuine historical ground: the king's reprisals, the chaos of a kingdom turning on its own. But the stakes climb higher still when Captain Miles reveals his secret: knowledge of the Madre de Dios, a legendary treasure ship lost in the chaos of war. The adventure that follows tests their courage, unearths buried family history, and forces young people to choose between safety and the dangerous allure of the unknown. For readers who cherish swashbuckling adventure stories of the Robert Louis Stevenson vein, this is a spirited time capsule, escape sequences, hidden treasure, and a hero barely old enough to hold a sword.
