The Private Adventure of Captain Shaw
Edith Shay
Hardcover
(The Blakiston Comoany, March 15, 1945)
The authors say in the introduction ..."Little in the story is wholly invented, any resemblance between its characters and person once living is NOT coincidental." Some of the works draw on in the creation of this work, include: Writings of Tom Paine; Narrative of Voyages and Commercial Enterprises by Richard Cleveland; Elijah Cobb, the Memoirs of a Cape Cod Skipper; along with various accounts of The Terror in France (French Revolution) have been drawn upon for detail and atmosphere.