Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles

The following book is an adventure novel written by Ernest R. Suffling. It follows the life of a man who was born at the little village of Barton in Norfolk, at the time the guns at Balaclava were mowing down our redcoats and tars. It was a comfortable old two-storied building, with a thatched roof, through which a couple of dormer windows peered out, like two eyes, over the beautiful green lawn which sloped to the reed-fringed water. My father was in very comfortable circumstances, as he was owner of six large fishing vessels hailing from the port of Great Yarmouth, some ten or twelve miles distant as the crow flies.