For this week only, I am pleased to announce that Vision Forum has a special 30% introductory sale on the newest set of G.A. Henty adventure classics! This years eight-volume set includes a couple of books by Henty which I particularly enjoy.
I read this book for the first time in the beginning of 2008. One of the things I really think is great about this one is the way Horace Beveridge and his father, Herbert a "philhellene," fit out a a schooner (fittingly named the
Misericordia = Mercy) and sail to Greece to help fight alongside the nation trying to win her freedom. The tide of history has often been turned because of the privatized work of men like Sir Francis Drake and the heroes of Dunkirk. Horace and his father sail off to try and help "make history." Discovering to their horror that Greeks and Turks were slaughtering each other the father-son team decide to use their schooner to aid victims on both sides in the struggle. After several "harrowing adventures", Horace is captured by the Turks and sent to Constantinople to await his fate. In the end Horace and his father sail away, safe and sound but disabused of the romance of the rebellion.
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