A resourceful woman navigates 18th-century English society and colonial America over a lifetime of seventy years, using her wit and resilience in her quest for wealth and happiness.
A writer of adventure stories indulges in a sudden urge to travel to the islands of the Pacific, and soon finds himself shipwrecked on a remote South Sea island.
An orphaned street-urchin follows a holy man across India during the time of the British Raj, eventually gaining an education and becoming a recruit to the Great Game of espionage against the Russians.