The Water-witch: Or, The Skimmer of the SeasPutnam, 1896 - 444 Seiten [The action is set] around New Jersey and Manhattan island and environs. The Water-Witch is a trim, beautiful, very fast sailing vessel smuggling goods into the North American colonies of the last Stuart Monarch, Queen Anne. The time is the early second decade of the 18th Century, approximately 1712. |
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