Gold Out of Celebes

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Published in 1920, Gold Out of Celebes is a sea adventure novel by Captain A. E. Dingle (Aylward Edward Dingle, 1874–1947), a British sailor and writer who drew on his own seafaring experience across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Captain Jack Barry, a down-on-his-luck mariner stranded in Batavia after his ship sinks, is offered command of a brigantine by a mysterious salesman named Tom Little, who claims to know the location of gold in the jungles of Celebes (now Sulawesi, Indonesia).

The voyage takes Barry through treacherous waters and dense tropical wilderness in a story that combines the practical detail of real seamanship with the romantic lure of buried treasure. Dingle, who also wrote under the pseudonym Sinbad, was one of the most authentic writers of sea fiction in the early twentieth century. Gold Out of Celebes is in the public domain and freely available through Project Gutenberg.

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