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LIMEYS IN THE CHILEAN NAVYJim Douglas is a British sailor born to sail the seas. At eighteen years ofage he is already second mate.When Jim he comes to serve under the nasty Captain Fisher of the steamerPericles that changes.Captain Fisher is an illtempered brute and his first mate is not much better.Together they terrorize the crew of the Pericles an iron single screwsteamer that carries nitrates silver ore hides and other trade items betweenChilean ports and Liverpool England. So when the Pericles reaches ValparaisoChile on January 7 1879 Jim knows what he has to do.Jump shipAlong with his best friend Terence OMeara third engineer Jim joins theChilean navy.Jim and Terry have plenty of adventure awaiting them.Chile has just declared war on Peru and BoliviaAn exciting novel of action adventure and treausre by a master of historicalsea tales «
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