The Albatross: or, Voices from the Ocean

Published originally in 1849 by H. Hurst & Co., London, this eBook version is transcribed from a republished 1877 edition by George Routledge and Sons in New York. The main storyline follows the adventures of a British warship engaged in the anti-slavery blockade along the East African coastline in the years after the Napoleonic Wars, as they battle weather, slavers, pirates, native Africans, and disease; but the genre of novel in this case is merely a thinly-veiled excuse for a collection ...