Rough Passage to London: A Sea Captain's Tale, a Novel

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Set in early nineteenth-century Lyme, Connecticut, the story follows Elisha Ely Morgan, a young farm boy shaped by the horrors of the War of 1812 and a violent home life. With both his older brothers gone—one lost at sea and the other presumed dead—Ely decides to venture out to sea himself. He invests his meager savings to become a sailor on a square-rigged ship, embarking on a journey from New York to London in hopes of finding his missing brother, Abraham, and discovering his own path to manhood.