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After his father's death fourteen-year-old Matt chooses to accompany his Uncle Nat to the wild and lawless waters of the Florida Keys to search for treasure and scavenge wrecks for cargo. Story transpires in the mid-eighteenth century.
First publish date: 1969
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Teenage boys, Sea stories
Authors: Basil Heatter
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