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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation. Bk 2 The Kingdom on the Waves / taken from accounts by his own hand and other sundry sources ; collected by M.T. Anderson of Boston.

Author: Anderson, M. T.

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2008.

Physical Description561 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Summary:After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.

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