SILVER'S ODYSSEY - Tapa blanda

Here is the story of a 1622 Spanish shipwrecked soldier's fantastic survival trek through coastal and inland Florida. Physical and emotional challenges of the highest order confront him on a four-year COLD MOUNTAIN-south adventure through a world few Europeans had seen. The will to live and his instinctive outdoor traits prod him into action, pursuing the return to his homeland. Written in the spirit of Daniel Defoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE, a Spanish lieutenant survives the sinking of the famed silver-laden galleon Atocha in the Florida Keys. Becoming self-reliant in a foreign wilderness, he strives to return home, honor intact, aided by a sharp Toledo sword.

Henry C. Duggan, III, is a first-time novelist whose publishing experience involved writing articles for a local magazine and newspaper. He has a great love of history and the wilderness, having canoed over 100 streams. Home is Albany, Ga., where he is a na