African Boy

This novel imagines the journey of a real but, until now, long-forgotten African boy who left Elmina in the Gold Coast in 1829 on a British ship, for the hope to travel to Holland. His ship was wrecked on rocks in January 1830 on the Isles of Scilly, Cornwall.With a strong narrative drive, the story evokes the hard life on board a sailing ship. It relates the boys meeting with members of the crew ...