Prize of War

About the Book

Elizabeth Troyes, teenage orphan from Carolina, is sent to be a nursemaid in Revolutionary wartime Boston. The ship she is travelling on is captured by the British. Appointed prize master and captain of the Phoebe is Midshipman Jeffrey Kent of the Royal Navy and incidentally also her cousin. In storm and battle, among Tory refugees in America and noblemen and smugglers in England their relationship to each other and their loyalties are formed and tested.

About the Author

Michael Cohn, anthropologist and teacher, has travelled on fishing boats, coastal steamers, and coast guard vessels along many shores of the North Atlantic. He has visited northern Scandinavia, the Shetlands, and Iceland as well as York, England and Bergen, Norway, where much of the action of this novel takes place. As guest curator, he has created an exhibit of the Jewish sea traders of the twelfth century at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City. Illustrator’s Biography Erik Ronnberg is a professional model boat builder whose ships, paintings, and research articles are widely known.