Outward Bound

Young America Abroad (first series) #1

by Oliver Optic

Besides a full description of the routine and discipline of the ship as an educational and reformatory institution the volume contains a rather free expose of the follies and frailties of youth but their vices are revealed to suggest the remedy.

Genres: Fiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1866

About the author

Oliver Optic was the pen name of William Taylor Adams, a Massachusetts schoolteacher whose magazines and stories for children reached a very wide audience from the 1850s through the turn of the twentieth century.

Reviews

[Hannah Knight · Rating 1 out of 5]

Listen, they get on the boat, and they stay on the boat, and that's what happens.

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

You could learn how to captain a ship from this book...

A school(boy) story on the waves. How pleasant. And talk about an unlikeable protagonist... but put alongside the ultimate unlikeable protagonist, Artemis Fowl, Bob Shuffles (what kind of name is that?) wasn't bad at all.