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The Great Quest
''The Great Quest'' by Charles Boardman Hawes is a children's adventure novel which was a Newbery Medal, Newbery Honor recipient in 1922. Illustrated by George Varian, it was published by The Atlantic Monthly Press in 1921. Plot The story opens in fictional Topham, Massachusetts, in 1826. After the man Cornelius "Neal" Gleazen unexpectedly returns to town, he involves childhood friend Seth Woods and Seth's nephew, twenty-year-old protagonist Josiah "Joe" Woods, in a dangerous sea journey to retrieve a hidden treasure. Accompanying them are Seth's two store-clerks, Arnold Lamont and Sim Muzzy, and farmer Abraham Guptil, on whose mortgage Neal forced Seth to foreclose in order to raise money to outfit the expedition. When the travelers reach Cuba it is revealed that there is no hidden treasure, and that Neal's actual intent is to kidnap native Africans from Guinea to sell as slaves. However, it is not until they reach Africa that Joe, Seth, and the others find an opportunity to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Boardman Hawes
Charles Boardman Hawes () was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction sea stories, best known for three historical novels. He died suddenly at age 34, after only two of his five books had been published. He was the first U.S.-born winner of the annual Newbery Medal, recognizing his third novel ''The Dark Frigate'' (1923) as the year's best American children's book. Reviewing the Hawes Memorial Prize Contest in 1925, ''The New York Times'' observed that "his adventure stories of the sea caused him to be compared with Stevenson, Dana and Melville". Life Hawes was the elder son of Charles Taylor Hawes and Martha Tibbetts Boardman. Born in Clifton Springs, New York, he was raised in Bangor, Maine, and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1911 where he was "editor of ''The Quill'' and a devoted student of the classics". He was a graduate student at Harvard for one year, on the staff of ''The Youth's Companion'' to 1920, and associate editor of ''The Open Road'' to his death in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |