Simon Finch - Slave Island, Souvenir Press, 1984

Simon Finch - Slave Island, Souvenir Press, 1984

Set in the 18th century, the story begins in Boston with Billy Peake, a young English colonial. Billy and his brother Andrew invest their inheritance in a cargo of Mexican silver to ship to China. When Billy discovers that the transit vessel is actually a slave ship, he uncovers a web of greed and sadism. He is eventually abandoned on Africa’s Slave Coast, forced across the continent, and swept into a journey spanning the Ottoman Empire and revolutionary China.

Brown cloth with dust jacket in good condition.  Tanning to leaves.  Text firm and clean.  Bumped spine ends.  Bumps on edges of dust jacket.  Reprint.

Weight   375g.   Pages   288.