The Adventures of Captain Horn

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The Adventures of Captain Horn
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Author Frank R. Stockton
PublisherScribner
Publication date
1895
Pages404
OCLC 1583097
LC Class PS2927 .A38 1895

The Adventures of Captain Horn is an 1895 adventure novel by Frank R. Stockton published by Charles Scribner's Sons. It was the third-best selling book in the United States in 1895. [1] [2] The sequel Mrs. Cliff's Yacht was released in 1897. [3] [4]

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Summary

In the early spring of 1884, the three-masted schooner Castor, en route from San Francisco to Valparaiso, encountered a violent tornado off the coast of Peru. The storm, which struck with terrifying swiftness, was brief but devastating. It left the Castor in ruins, her masts snapped and lost overboard, her rudder shattered by the falling debris. The ship was left adrift, rolling in the sea's trough as the floating remnants of her masts and spars battered against her sides. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Hackett, Alice Payne (1967). Seventy Years of Best Sellers, 1895-1965. R.R. Bowker Company. p. 91.
  2. ↑ Zipes, Jack (2007). When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition. Taylor & Francis. p. 192. ISBN   978-0-415-98006-7.
  3. ↑ Warner, Charles Dudley (2008) [1896]. A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XXXV (Forty-Five Volumes); Southey-Suetonius. Cosimo, Inc. p. 13991. ISBN   978-1-60520-234-1.
  4. 1 2 "Novels of Early Summer" (PDF). The New York Times . June 2, 1895. Retrieved October 18, 2025.


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