Book 2004

Seal boy

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Publisher: Random House New Zealand
Language: English
Published: 2004

Whaling
Fiction
Adventure stories
Survival
Shanghaiing
Adventure and adventurers

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Tyler is the son of a wealthy banker and yearns to escape the stifling society of Boston and see the world. While exploring the docks he is shanghaied for a three-year voyage on a whaling ship, eventually finding himself abandoned in New Zealand where he must fight for his life. Suggested level: secondary.