Our summer holidays found us in a little English village.
Whilst exploring, we found a tiny antique shop and took a look inside.
Being myself, I looked for the book section. I found it in a cold, dark corner of the shop and immediately the book jumped out at me.
The cover was compelling with its tattered ship and dramatic scene of a half-drowned boy holding on to his black dog. It made one NEED to read it. I looked at the tag and it was only 50p. Yes, it was mine.
SUMMARY
A young, mute boy fled his dominant stepbrothers as they pursued him towards the harbour. Cornered there, with nowhere left to hide, the eldest - a fat, ugly boy pushes him off the sheer wharf-drop. Knowing that their mute stepbrother is unable to swim, they leave him for dead.
Gasping for air, the mute boy grabs hold of a rope, carelessly left off-board by a drunken deckhand and pulls himself up . . . . .
Discovered by cruel ship cook and named Nebuchadnezzar or
During a short stop at a foreign port he unexpectedly befriends a stray black dog and together they end up having many, many adventures.
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