In the Sargasso Sea

In the Sargasso Sea is a novel written in 1898 by Thomas Allibone Janvier. Recently, Kessinger Publishing's rare reprints has re-issued the book.

Plot

The protagonist, Roger Stetworth, unwillingly joins a slave ship called the Golden Hind captained by Luke Chilton. He is rescued by the Hurst Castle and doctored by a stereotypically depicted Irishman. The Hurst Castle is abandoned but does not founder in a gale, and the crew, unable to get to him, are forced to leave Stetworth marooned aboard. The ship drifts into the center of the Sargasso Sea where Stetworth finds himself in a ships' graveyard in which survivors of previous shipwrecks still inhabit the forgotten ships. Stetworth must rely on his own ingenuity to get free of the choking weeds that fill the sea.