Joan Druett’s A Love of Adventure is free today and tomorrow as an Amazon Kindle edition. From our review, last August:
Many of the classics of nautical literature are stories of young men who set off to sea, often compelled, in equal parts, by necessity and a longing for adventure. Joan Druett’s A Love of Adventure is just such a tale, with an important twist or two. Her young hero, Abigail Pandora Sherman, is a heroine and has no need to run off to sea, as she was born and largely raised aboard her father’s merchant brig, with which she shares her middle name. “A Love of Adventure” is a wonderfully written and highly entertaining novel, carrying the reader from New Zealand to New Bedford and back again, by way of Panama and the wilder coasts of South America. It is a rousing adventure and coming of age story that also includes elements of mystery and intrigue.
A Love of Adventure is a wonderful book filled with exciting events for its heroine Abigail. A fine summer take-to-the-beach adventure book for adults, It is also a wonderful book for teens and pre-teens as it details so much of 19th century history of New England and New Zealand seafaring as well as a look at the adventure of crossing the Isthmus of Panama before the canal was built (the first trans-continental railroad).