MYSTERY SCHOONER

by Terence Roberts ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 13, 1944

This is one of those books popularly known as ""bridging books"" -- which help carry boys surfeited with ""Comics"" over into reading better books. This is pure adventure, but the author knows his sea, and is at his best in his descriptions of a typhoon, a battle between a submarine and a plane, and a Jap attack on a rubber plantation. One must confess that his situations occasionally strain the credulity and the characterizations are weak. A boy and his sister escape from a Sumatra plantation when the Japs come in 1942 -- are led through the jungle by natives to a seaport town -- and there board a schooner bound for Java with four other young refugees. The climax of the story finds the adventurers way off their route, under attack by German sub; an RAF plane comes to the rescue, and a US destroyer comes in the nick of time to save their precious cargo.

Pub Date: Oct. 13, 1944

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1944

Categories: FICTION