In the dare-devil days of the buccaneers, when there were as many pirates upon the seas as highwaymen upon the roads, it was sixteen-year-old Luke the Whaler who earned the title of "King's Corsair." With a rascally crew and a stolen ship, he sailed out of Dunkirk harbour one morning to seek a golden fortune to fill the coffers of Louis the Fourteenth
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CBC select list 1963
First published in French under title: Luc la baleine, corsaire du roi. Paris : Librairie Delagrave, 1952