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Eli Brown · 2013 · sea

Eli Brown's 2013 swashbuckler. In 1819 the celebrated chef Owen Wedgwood is kidnapped by the notorious pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot and told he will live only as long as he cooks her a gourmet supper every Sunday. Aboard the Flying Rose he is swept across the oceans, from the English coast to the South China Sea, as Mabbot hunts the elusive Brass Fox and wages her private war on the opium trade.

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    The English Coast

    Off the south coast of England, the chef Wedgwood is rowed aboard Captain Mabbot's ship, the Flying Rose.

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    West Africa

    South down the Atlantic past the coast of West Africa.

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    The Cape of Good Hope

    Around the stormy Cape and into the Indian Ocean.

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    India

    To the coast of India, the source of the opium that drives the trade.

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    The Sunda Strait

    Through the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java into the eastern seas.

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    Macau

    And north to Macau and the China coast, where the hunt for the Brass Fox comes to its reckoning.

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