The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires them to a further idea: they will steal the schooner and its cargo of champagne, sell them, and live a plentiful life. The thought is intoxicating... and so is the cargo, which they sample. Inattention nearly brings them to grief in a sudden storm. This sobering experience is followed by another — apparently the dead officers had a similar ambition! — and their dreams of riches vanish.
Then, nearly out of provisions and deep in the heart of the Pacific where the chart shows no land — they happen on a small isle only hinted at in the records and never mapped. Saved! But what is this? The island hides a pearl fishery?
In the ebb-tide of fortune, what new villainy will the three attempt? (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
- Author
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- Hard Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781406946598
- Settings
- Tahiti, Polynesia
- Genres
- classics, fiction, adventure, audiobook, literature
- Release date
- 2006
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