Complete and unabridged, with 46 full-page plates by Joseph Heard, Louis Meijer and Ivan Aivazovsky. A boy shipped as a castaway ends up aboard the American squadron at Manila Bay in 1898. Stratemeyer wrote the book within months of the battle and later founded the syndicate that produced the Rover Boys, Tom Swift, the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. This edition adds a gallery of 46 plates of painting by Edvard Munch, Joseph Heard, Ivan Aivazovsky and Julius Prömmel, alongside 7 restored and coloured illustrations.

Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) was an American publisher and writer born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He wrote over a hundred and fifty books himself and founded the syndicate that produced some thirteen hundred more under house names. His works include Under Dewey at Manila, the Rover Boys series, and the outlines behind Tom Swift and the Hardy Boys.