F. van Wyck Mason

American Revolutionary tale, from the siege of Boston onwards. Features Newport and Jamestown, Rhode Island

Fiction based on historical naval history. Adventure and action on the high seas, charting the real life expedition of Admiral George Anson, charged with creating mayhem with the Spanish territories between 1740 - 1744, culminating in the capture of the legendary 'Manila Galleon', a Spanish treasure ship homeward bound annually to Spain. Mason's novel is crammed with tension, action, excitement and adventure, while providing a horrific portrayal of conditions in King George 3rd's English Navy. Particularly disturbing, yet fascinating, are the true and graphic accounts of mutiny and Cannibalism amongst shipwrected sailors and Anson's classic leadership skills, when faced with adversity, the deadly 'scurvy' and very hungry rats, openly eating sailors too weak to fend them off, on the Island of Juan Fernandez, the original setting of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe - based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, marooned on that Island 40 years earlier.

“He wrote his name in blood! When Henry Morgan, the great buccaneer, defied the might of Spain, no golden city in the Caribbean was safe from his sword. With a rabble band of pirates he seized fabulous treasures and filled the chests of England's King.”

A fine historical novel of the shipwrecked men and women who first settled the Bermuda Islands.

“Andrew Warren was an American spy sent on a desperate mission by the Continental Navy. Lovely Minga Allen was a Loyalist sympathizer, forced to flee the Colonies. For a brief moment they buried the past in each others arms. But then Minga learned that Andrew was an American officer. She knew he would stop at nothing to accomplish his mission. And when British troops came to hang him, Minga had to make a terrible choice—treason to her King or death on the gallows for the man she so passionately loved?”

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“They refused to give up. It was the year 1742. Inland, on the wild Penobscot River, Bart Mayhew and his followers had forged a wilderness settlement. Suddenly—without warning—the Indians attacked. They swooped down on the tiny cluster of cabins, shattering Bart's dreams and filling his life with tragedy. All across the wilds the savage hordes were on the warpath—murdering, plundering and torturing. If the English colonies were to survive, it was time to stand up and be counted.”

The Union Navy during the Civil War and its fight against the Southern blockade runners.