I found this book to be rather engaging. Lots of betrayal and misunderstanding, lots of skulduggery, lots of racist stereotypes about Muslims and Arabs, lots of sexism, and so forth, but then it was written in 1915. If you have to choose between this and "The Scarlet Pimpernel", choose this one. Not...
I am of an age that remembers spending Saturday afternoons at my local movie theater with a bag of popcorn and a box of milk duds and a coke that in total cost me about a dollar. The movies (and there were always two of them----with a cartoon just to get you going) were 50 cents. Those hours were m...
Born 9 April 1649Rotterdam, NetherlandsDied 15 July 1685 (aged 36)Tower Hill, London, EnglandTitle Duke of MonmouthDuke of BuccleuchEarl of DoncasterBaron Scott of TynedaleLord Lieutenant of StaffordshireCustos Rotulorum of StaffordshireCommander-in-Chief of the ForcesSpouse(s) Anne Scott, 1st Duche...
In this tale of swashbuckling adventure, Peter Blood goes from being a doctor to a slave to a pirate captain and beyond. It is the measuring stick against which other pirate novels are measured.So why did I only give it a three? It's pretty slow moving. Blood doesn't become a pirate until over a ...
Audio CD – 3 starsBook – 5 starsJust an adaptation (sigh)…As such, it’s not bad. The actors are good, particularly the one playing Arabella Bishop – her voice is perfect. I now have a beautiful voice to match the beautiful woman pictured on the inside cover of my printed edition. The only complaint ...
I hadn't heard of Sabatini until quite recently, when I saw him credited as one of Arturo Perez-Reverte's major influences - along with Alexandre Dumas. That was enough to make me seek out a book!This 1922 novel is the story that the movie starring Errol Flynn was based on - and it is indeed, as one...
If you want more high sea adventures with pirates, look no further. Told in the same vein of great story-telling as his predecessor, Alexander Dumas, provides a thrilling tale of danger and desire when a good man, Dr. Peter Blood, is wrongly accused of treachery and sentenced to hard labor in the Ca...
The quintessential pirate novel. Treasure Island can go fuck itself.Ok, kidding of course. But nonetheless, Captain Blood is probably the second most influential book on the subject, and in my own humble opinion it is the best. Exciting, romantic, well-researched,and with a ridiculously bad-ass hero...
My review:http://abouttocharge.wordpress.com/2007/06/08/sakr-el-bahr-the-hawk-of-the-sea-the-scourge-of-the-mediterranean-and-the-terror-of-christian-spain/
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