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The year is 1832 and Charlotte Doyle is about to board a ship bound for home.
Charlotte is taking this journey to reunite with her family, who are awaiting her return in America. Ms. Doyle boards the Seahawk in England as a special young lady but quickly things go awry when her traveling companions fail to show up for departure. She is the only female aboard the ship and fears the social implications.

Charlotte quickly makes a friend in the old black cook named Zachariah. He gives her a knife and
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