Quallah Battoo by Knapp, Ronald Stephen

Quallah Battoo (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781548736507)

Vendor: Ronald Stephen Knapp
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$14.99
$14.99
$14.99
Subtotal: $14.99
Quallah Battoo by Knapp, Ronald Stephen

Quallah Battoo

$14.99
Quallah Battoo by Knapp, Ronald Stephen

Quallah Battoo

$14.99
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
Quallah Battoo recounts the true story of the 1831 attack by "ruthless Sumatran pirates" on the Salem pepper ship Friendship, commanded by the able Captain Charles Moses Endicott. The brutal murder of Americans takes place in Sumatra, a dangerous island of savage traders and rajas, where only the bravest captains dare to venture. Word of the death of Americans prompts President Andrew Jackson to send the Potomac on its maiden voyage to deliver justice and show America's naval power to the world. Captain Endicott's travels awaken the yearnings of Adi, a fourteen-year-old Malay, who is touched by the pawang Wati, whose magic rivals the all-powerful rajas that rule the island. Adi's love of a mysterious orphan, "the devil girl," complicates his love for his parents, his loyalties to his people and his dreams of a future beyond the horizon. But how will this native boy survive this violent clash of cultures?

Author: Ronald Stephen Knapp
ISBN-10: 1548736503
ISBN-13: 9781548736507
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2017
Pages: 414
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.92d
By Ronald Stephen Knapp
By Ronald Stephen Knapp
x
Dr. Ron Knapp has over thirty-seven years of experience as a history teacher, writer and traveler. He has hitchhiked throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico and Western Europe. He has lived in Detroit, Miami, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, and the Philippines and has traveled to over forty countries. Along with other adventures, he has lived on a kibbutz, worked as an extra in a movie titled The Big Red One, was a roughneck and roustabout on a drill ship, voyaged the Niger River to Timbuktu and has his second degree Black Belt in Tang Soo Do. Awarded his doctorate from Florida International University in 1998, while living in West Africa, he worked for four years in Surabaya, Indonesia, the country that provides the setting for his novel, Quallah Battoo. Originally a winter-beaten Michigander, he currently lives in the Sunshine State of Florida, with his wife, Lou Ann.

Recently Viewed Products