Book #9 in the Courtney family series. This book goes back to the beginning of the Courtney‘s of Africa. All the way to the 1660‘s where Hal has to grow up fast. A lot more of sailing in the seas, religious wars, piracy and not a lot of the African interior. If this was the first book I read in the series I‘d be too bored to continue. But since I know how things are in 200 years I‘m keen to read how the Courtney‘s got there.