A fifteen-year-old boy from New York, in 1839, finds himself thrust into a sea-going adventure in the Florida Keys. A popular book when first published in 1869, The Young Wrecker offers a wonderful depiction of nineteenth-century life in South Florida and in Key West.

The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef

Literature & Fiction

Richard Meade Bache

Genre Fiction

Ketch & Yawl Press LLC

<p>A fifteen-year-old boy from New York, in 1839, finds himself thrust into a sea-going adventure in the Florida Keys. A popular book when first published in the 1860s, The Young Wrecker offers a wonderful depiction of nineteenth-century life in South Florida and in Key West. This book is close to perfect history for an area and era almost lost to historians.</p>

The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred Ransom

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The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef

The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef or, The Trials and Adventures of Fred Ransom