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The Wings of the Morning

Louis Tracy

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The sailor eyed the concluding item with disfavor. "Not whilst the sun is up." he said. "In the evening, yes."

"It was for you," explained Iris, coldly. "I do not drink wine."

"You must break the pledge whilst you are here, Miss Deane. It is often very cold at night in this latitude. A chill would mean fever and perhaps death."

"What a strange man!" murmured the girl.

She covertly watched his preparations. He tore a dry leaf from a notebook and broke the bullet out of a cartridge, damping the powder with water from a pitcher-plant. Smearing the composition on the paper, he placed it in the sun, where it dried at once. He gathered a small bundle of withered spines from the palms, and arranged the driftwood on top, choosing a place for his bonfire just within the shade. Then, inserting the touch-paper among the spines, he unscrewed one of the lenses of the binoculars, conve. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Most enjoyable novel I've read in a long time

"Shipwreck, adventure, & romance" describes this book very well. The old pre- world War I British English and obscure references were a bit hard to navigate, and the protagonist's Fight with the octopus was totally unrealistic, but otherwise the reading w

I wasn’t sure if I’d like this book or not, but I did! It’s written in 1903, old English, very noble.

I don't read romance novels very often but when I do, they have to be cut through with adventure or wordplay and they have to be fun. This one was a fun adventure with gobs of flowing, almost ridiculous to our modern taste, language. I guess I need to go pre-1910 for any romance! I recommend it high

After reading Number Seventeen I had to read another Louis Tracy novel and chose The Wings of the Morning. There are several predictable things in a Tracy novel, but predictable isn't always bad. I know there will be a clean romance, there will be turn of the century remarks that don't fit in with t

It's an early 20th century work that is still read today. The story has action and adventure and a happy ending. What more could we want?

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