Description

On a June morning in the centurys infancy Cyrus Braithwaitewithout explanationorders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September The three boys and a friend board the Braithwaitess fortysixfoot schooner and begin a perilous journey down the East Coast bound for the Florida Keys A storm abruptly ends their passage leaving them stranded in Cuba but when they telegraph their father for help he does not respond After their ordeal is over no one in the family ever again mentions the voyage