Cursed

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Gainsborough and François Bossuet. In a squalid Malay river village a Boston shipmaster, Alpheus Briggs, a bucko who drives his crew with his fists, is cursed by a native witch-woman, and a war with the Malay fleet follows. Fifty years later, old and devoted to his grandson Hal, Captain Briggs finds the curse has not finish...