The One-Eyed Albatross Five voyagers¿from five very different parts of the world and sharing little commonality. They must survive three terrifying zones of winds in the latitudes of the Southern Ocean aptly named by the sailors who have survived them, the Roaring Forties, the Furious Fifties, and the Screaming Sixties¿as they sail from Rio de Janeiro around Cape Horn at the tip of South America, to win the right to wear the legendary gold earring. On one small ship¿haunted by one extraordinary bird¿the Wandering Albatross, king of the Southern Ocean, the usual symbol of good luck to sailors, but with them now on a special mission. Is it to claim a soul? With The One-Eyed Albatross, David Pappas has crafted a novel that is part chronicle, part memoir, and all swashbuckling thriller. More people have walked on the moon than the number of small boats that have ¿doubled the Horn¿ east to west. A master mariner and Coast Guard¿certified captain, Pappas builds on that mystique, adding pirates and murder until the storm brewing within these pages releases. In the end, will a ritualistic self-sacrifice reverse a hundred-year legacy of disgrace and right a great wrong, and will each of these five characters disassemble and crumble into ruin?