In this suspenseful tale of piracy in America of the early 1700s, a 14-year-old is kidnapped and must use all of his wits to plot his escape and keep from getting keelhauled.

The adventures of a fourteen-year-old boy from Maine with pirates off the Atlantic coast in the 18th century.

Jeremy's father helped him drive the sheep into the rude pen on the island off the coast of Maine, and then hurried to return to his colonial clearing on the mainland. "I sort of hate to leave you here alone," he said, "but I'll be back this time tomorrow." Before "this time tomorrow" the boy had been carried away by pirates who had been using the island as a base. A perilous trip follows to the West Indies, rough and lonesome for the boy until the son of a man prominent in the Carolinas is captured. Their attempts to escape and their trip overland to Maine complete the story. In 1920 Stephen W. Meader's first book The Black Buccaneer, was published, opening up an exciting world of adventure to generations of young readers. Writing in long hand on a lap board, this classic is as thrilling a tale of piracy as any young person could desire.

The Black Buccaneer was Stephen W. Meader's first novel. He wrote extensively for young readers and was a firm favourite of many. Another of his novels (Bulldozer) was referenced by Stephen King. In this book the young hero is snatched by the pirates of the title. After several adventures he regains his freedom and later evens the score assisting in the buccaneers' capture. It is set in America in the early 1700s and gives a great flavour of colonial times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

One morning in 1718, Jeremy Swan was left by his father to tend their sheep on an island off the coast of Maine. By the time his father returned the next morning, the seventeen year old had been kidnapped by pirates who had been using the island as a base, and taken along to the West Indies.