Young Godfray Rainer becomes a midshipman on an English war corvette, which goes in search of a Spanish ship that robs merchant ships and trades in slaves. The pursuit of pirates turns into the beginning of a long odyssey, in which boarding battles and shipwrecks give way to a Robinsonade full of exoticism and dangerous adventures. Over the 30 years of his literary activity, the English writer William Henry Giles Kingston (1814–1880) created more than a hundred novels, the action of which takes place in all corners of the globe.