Seibert of the Island

Gordon Young

South Seas Adventure Novel, written in 1925 by Gordon Ray Young (1886-1948) a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco, literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. During his time in Los Angeles, Young befriended the writer Paul Jordan-Smith and the painter Edward Middleton Manigault. As such, this book was dedicated to the memory of the painter Middleton Manigault who was born in London, Ontario, and started his career there. Seibert of the Island is a tale of adventure, set on a tropical South Sea island Pulotu. A story with a pirate, two half native girls, a gentleman vagabond and Adolph Seibert, a German plantation owner. The German marries one of the girls, was loved by neither, both girls loved the vagabond.