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review 2014-05-22 16:47

Lost Treasures Of The Pirates Of The Caribbean (James A. and Jeremy Owen)

Lost Treasures of the Pirates of the Caribbean - James A. Owen,Jeremy Owen

Believe me, it was completely different from what I expected. I am a great lover of the brilliant but rather unknown fantasy series

"The Chronicles Of The Imaginarium Geographica" by James A. Owen,

so I simply had to get the spin-off book. I thought it was a novel. A novel related to the fifth book. The only finished IG book was the first, though. And while the Lost Treasures are interesting for IG fans, IG might not be interesting for LT readers.

It's not a novel, it doesn't have a storyline. But it is full of interesting facts (and fictions...) and it has wonderful maps.

It also contains a riddle. Will you solve it?

I recommend it to people, that search for a delightful and fast read, to every pirate fan, to every IG lover, to every child-at-heart

If you want a really exiting fantasy book with pirates - red "The Chronicles Of The Imaginarium Geographica" - it has pirates, alongside many other exiting things :)

I have to say: five stars out of five

text 2014-01-28 16:36

Pirates and more pirates!

Darlene Marshall, author

A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - Captain Charles Johnson

“Papa, are you going to blow them out of the water? Will you put burning fuses in your hair like Blackbeard to scare them?”

Fuller looked down at the tyke, then back at his captain.

“I told you reading Captain Johnson to her was a bad idea.”

--The Pirate's Secret Baby, March 2014

This month's Smithsonian Magazine features an excellent cover story on Blackbeard by renowned pirate scholar Colin Woodard. 2014 is shaping up to be a good year for all things piratical. Saturday was the premier of Black Sails on Starz, which had some real pirate history along with the nekkid ladies and violence we've come to expect from cable productions. Later this year NBC will offer Crossbones, starring John Malkovich as Blackbeard and using Woodard's The Republic of Pirates as its source.

And, of course, the very best news of all is the publication of Darlene Marshall's The Pirate's Secret Baby in March. You'll be hearing more about this as the release date nears.