Star-crossed /
Starcrossed
Linda Collison.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Knopf, c2006.
- 408 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-408).
Having been discovered as a stowaway as she tries to reach Barbados in 1760 to claim her father's estate, teenaged English orphan Patricia Kelley struggles to survive by learning to be a ship's doctor and by disguising herself as a man when necessary. Includes glossary of nautical terms.