The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea

Name: The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea
Author: Mayne Reid

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CEFR level: C1
Length: 79 chapters
Format: The complete book

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In the vast Pacific, an English frigate pursues a mysterious Chilean barque flying a reversed flag of distress—an eerie signal contradicted by the vessel’s swift escape and strange crew clad in skin-dresses. What secrets lurk aboard this ghostly ship?

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