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 combat at sea, brutality and the everyday hardships the crew have to bear while sailing through ferocious storms. The story is full of wonderful daring adventures, acts of gallantry and heroism. While searching for love, Matthew discovers true love in the most unlikely of places. With wonderful descriptions of what life at sea was like in the 1700s, readers are given the opportunity to climb aboard the Sea Dragon and join its crew as they chase their individual dreams of love, wealth and immortality.
