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Severin's eye for detail is keen, his ability to cross cultural boundaries impressive and his rendering of island culture lyrical. He hit pay dirt in Lamalera, Indonesia, an isolated spot. He shadowed a victorious
One of the great fallacies in sea literature and maritime history is that place doesn't matter. It is as if once upon the ocean, a non-place, mariners were stripped of their allegiance to locale and its legacies toSeverin's account links the rarely paired worlds of mid-19th-century American literature and late-20th-century Asian maritime communities. In many ways it is more satisfying as an adventure guide to the remote fishing The nearest islands, the Marquesas, were more than 1,000 miles downwind, but reputedly home to savages with a taste for human flesh. The familiar coast of South America, however, was over 2,000 miles to the east, and upwind In this era, they did not have harpoons that are shot out of a cannon; they had to row right up next to the whale, and someone with the right skill and strength thrust the harpoon into the side of the whale. These are large mammals, the largest toothed whale, reaching upwards of 80 feet long (now only about 65 feet which has been attributed to the excessive hunting of the largest males who, therefore, did not have a chance to pass on their genes.) and weighing 45 tons. They also have the largest known brain of any extinct or modern animal weighing in at 17 lbs. If they can avoid the harpoons of man and keep out of the reach of Orcas, they can live up to 70 years. Once the harpoon was in the whale, the sailors became the fastest moving humans on the planet as the whale would try to escape by fleeing at upwards of 27 mph while pulling the boat and crew along with it. Childhood Friends: First Officer Owen Chase and Second Officer Matthew Joy. Thomas also has an older friend whom he sees as a brother. I liked this series because it was… practical. I've never met a character with a materialistic streak in romance, and it was very refreshing. And seeing how Trevor kept offering her jewels and opportunities because he thought it might keep her with him… I loved that.
This book isn’t really gross in its description, but a lot of the imagery it conjures just might be enough to twist sensitive stomachs. Also animal and marine life lovers want to watch out. Other than the fact that it is about a whaling ship there are other things that might be distressing, as the men forage for food. Ahem. Pollard is portrayed as a haughty and inexperienced Blue Blood who owes his captaincy to nepotism when in reality Pollard had already served as a Mate on the Essex itself for several years and was justly deserving of his promotion. and despite hating the people and actually enjoying their suffering, it is impressive how much and how long they survived. Then again, it would have been so much easier if they hadn't been so stupid (yes, a lot of the horrible things that happened to the crew could have been avoided). I don’t know what the rest of Goodreaders think, but I’d rather start gnawing on the boat or a sail rather than eat the coxswain..
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the horribly incompetent captain ends up having his 17-year-old cousin shot and eaten (awkward homecoming, that: "Hey Nancy, so the good news is I'm alive!" -"Uhm, where's my teenage son that I entrusted specifically to your care?" -"Yeah well, you know how they say the dead live on inside us...?"); Before I end this, let me give you just a little bit of taste of how selfish Darcy Gallagher really is:
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