Author: Edison Marshall
Publisher: Dell F67 Year: 1958 Print: 1 Cover Price: $0.50
Condition: Very Good Plus
Genre: Fiction

Land was left behind. The breeze was fresh, the sky bright, the waves dark blue below their sparkling crests. The ship's high stem, shaped and painted in the image of a dragon's head towering in battle, and the stern like his tail stiff and erect with fury, alternately rose and fell. A gray man with burning eyes seated abaft the mast carefully put aside his harp and took a well-sharpened quill from behind his ear. After dipping thge point in lampblack mixed with water, he wrote his name, Alan, on the top of a scroll o parchment.