Nic Revel; A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land, by George
Manville Fenn.
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Nic Revel is brought up on a small landed estate in Devon. The date is
somewhere in the middle of the nineteenth century. There is a very good
salmon pool on the estate, but it is often used by poachers, which
greatly annoys the Revel family. Eventually they have a great fight
there, in which they had arranged to be supported by men from a vessel
of the Royal Navy.
Nic is wounded and is mistaken for a poacher by the naval party, who
press-gang the poachers. When they reach America, Nic is still hardly
conscious, and not capable of much work. All the less able poachers are
then sold by the ship to an American slave dealer, who sells them to a
settler who lives a long way up a river.
After a journey to the farm they find that they are given very hard work
to do, and not fed very well. And of course Nic and one of the
poachers, who has become a good friend of his, want to get back to
Devon. After many trials and tribulations they eventually escape.
George Manville Fenn is a master of suspense, and this book is a very
good example of his work.
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NIC REVEL; A WHITE SLAVE'S ADVENTURES IN ALLIGATOR LAND, BY GEORGE
MANVILLE FENN.