A Tropical Frontier: The Foundling - Hardcoverby Tim Robinson (Author) It is 1715, and Caspar Crispian former slave, celebrated opera star, notorious pirate, and wanted man in at least four nations has found his place in the world. Home is a desolate, tropic shore, located at the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean, two rivers, and a meandering creek that extends its fingers deep into the fabled sawgrass expanses to the south. Here, a native seaside village called Jobe, his is a life of contentment