Running Proud - Master Mariner, Bk 1 Author:Nicholas Monsarrat Doomed to immortality by a spectacular act of cowardice during battle with the Spanish Armada, a young Matthew Lawe is sentenced to an eternity at sea. Thus cursed, he rided the merciless tides of irrevocable history with Henry Hudson, Henry Morgan, Lord Nelson, and others - the daring and the doomed, sailing through the centuries on an unending... more » quest for salvation. It is an imaginative sea yarn full of the spirit of adventure.« less