Well-researched and superbly penned!! This historical investigation of one ship against a world of opposition is an adventurous investigation that relates the historical fact with extraordinary feeling, transmitting all the tension imaginable as ships chased and dodged one another on eerie fog-heavy, shark-infested seas, during a time when domineering nations drew invisible lines in the earth and filled stolen lands with stolen lives. 

 

Rooks paints the truth of the drastic inhumane conditions on slave-ships with great respect for those who suffered, though she does not shy away from details; she manages to celebrate the small victories amid an onslaught avalanche of unthinkable injustices; she brings to light an unbiased, though engaging look at the history of this daring sole campaigner and its impossible assignment on the deadly seas. 

 

A worthwhile lesson for any lover of British Naval history, but probably one of the most important little ships in the history of the British Navy because of its most holy mission.