Ross WIlber went to the docks to meet a friend, and when he accepted the offer of a drink from a friendly sailor, he never dreamed he would end up drugged, sold to an unscrupulous captain, and shipped off for the Orient . . . in a word, shanghaied! By a series of strange twists of fate, his new-found employment proves anything but drudgery . . . between a derelict ship, a mutiny, and a female sailor named Moran, his adventures off the California coast are just beginning!