In the 1860s, two African boys are taken captive and mistakenly left in the care of David Livingstone, whom they accompany on a quest to find a way to stop the slave trade and to open the interior of Africa to missionaries.
Thirteen-year-old Hamilton Jones seeks revenge against the former captain of the ship on which his mother had been taken from Africa to slavery in the Colonies.
Traces the history of the Philadelphia Phillies, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, quotations, anecdotes, and a glossary.