Over the course of his career, author Percy F. Westerman penned dozens of action-adventure tales, many of which were set during World War I. However, the book that launched his literary career, A Lad of Grit, is set in the mid-seventeenth century. Readers of all ages will enjoy this tale of an intrepid young man who proves his mettle in a series of dangerous situations.
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- Title
- Contents
- Chapter I - How the Tidings of the Restoration Came to Rake
- Chapter II - Of the Arrest and Escape of Increase Joyce
- Chapter III - Concerning My Journey to Portsmouth
- Chapter IV - How Judgment was Passed on the Dorset Smugglers
- Chapter V - Of My First Ship, the Gannet
- Chapter VI - Of the Finding of Pedro Alvarez, and of the Strange Tale that He Told
- Chapter VII - Concerning the Treasure Island
- Chapter VIII - Of an Encounter with an Algerine Corsair
- Chapter IX - I Lose the Little Gannet
- Chapter X - How I Defended the Foretop
- Chapter XI - Of the Manner of My Homecoming
- Chapter XII - The Smugglers' Cave
- Chapter XIII - The Escape
- Chapter XIV - I Set Out to Fight the Dutch
- Chapter XV - Of the Famous Sea Fight of Four Days
- Chapter XVI - I Meet an Old Enemy
- Chapter XVII - Showing that there Are Two Means of Leaving a Prison
- Chapter XVIII - The Veil is Partly Drawn
- Chapter XIX - How Three Horsemen Set Out for the North
- Chapter XX - What We Heard and Saw at Holwick
- Chapter XXI - Our Search for the Treasure
- Endnotes