A High Wind in JamaicaPublished to great acclaim in 1929, this classic and bestselling tale of childhood did away with Victorian sentimental visions of childhood and paved the way for later works such as Golding's Lord of the Flies. Set against a tropical landscape and the ever present sea, A High Wind in Jamaica tells the story of a family of English children who, on being sent by their parents back to England from Jamaica, fall into the hands of pirates. As this voyage