Molly and the Spatterdasher
Robert J. Taylor
Broschiertes Buch

Molly and the Spatterdasher

An Immigration Odyssey and Disaster at Sea ~ A Novel Inspired by Family Lore

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A Novel Based on Family Lore Set in the mid-1800s, A Gripping Tale of Desperation, Disaster, and Determination It's 1844 in Swansea, a grimy industrial town in South Wales dominated by copper smelters. John Gibson, destitute and desperate, has just turned eighteen and he's drunk, at the mercy of a recruiter who signs him to a twenty-year stint in the British Army. Sober, hungover, and frightened, he runs away, across the Bristol Channel to Tiverton, in Devonshire, England, where he changes his name to Taylor and is taken on as an apprentice to become a cordwainer, a shoemaker. He falls in love...