Book excerpt: "The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous" is one of the best-known works by the English author and journalist George Augustus Sala. It is an adventure novel that features the travels of Captain Dangerous, who was a soldier, a sailor, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the Moors, a bashaw in the service of the Grand Turk, and lived through a series of other unbelievable events before he finally got back to his home in Hanover Square.