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By the time Nelson Biddermast was five years old, he’d already survived ten days drifting alone as an infant near the mouth of the Strait of Magellan and four and a half years marooned on an island in the South Pacific Ocean. By the time he was eight, he’d moved to the fishing village of Eastbury with the rough and surly Captain Roland Herrick who’d become a surrogate father to him, and he’d been accepted there as the strangely enigmatic miracle child who was cared for as a baby by the sea itself. By the time he was ten, he’d developed a reputation as one of the most naturally gifted seamen in New England. And by the time he was 12, his aunt and uncle, having discovered his existence in Eastbury, had taken him away from everything he knew there. Though this development was the most difficult of his young life, it also seemed to offer an opportunity for Nelson to learn about the parents who he’d never known, the parents who’d put him overboard when he was a newborn before perishing in a storm at sea. But by the time he was 13, having been mostly disappointed by the things he’d learned about those parents, Nelson Biddermast set out on his own, on a journey to discover where he belonged in the world. The answer probably shouldn’t have been surprising, but it was.