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Title: The Dark Frigate by Charles Boardman Hawes ISBN: 0-316-35009-5 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Dark Frigate
Comment: By: Charles Boardmen Hawes
In seventeenth-century England Philip Marshman was suddenly orphaned when his father died at sea. Growing up around ships Philip runs from London and joins the frigate called "The Rose of Devon." In the middle of the voyage to Newfoundland the ship is seized by evil men, from a floating wreck, saved by the Rose of Devon's crew. Now Philip Marshman is a pirate joining these men on there bloody journey. With only his hanging awaiting him in London. Will he survive? Or suffer the same fate as his father.
Rating: 4
Summary: Don't get discouraged, it gets pretty good!
Comment: "The Dark Frigate" was the 1923 Newbery Award winner. However, as I read the first few chapters I was thinking to myself, "Boy, the Newbery standards weren't very high back then." My chief problem was that it was written in a very archaic and verbose style. I understand that the author was trying to recreate a feeling of 17th century language for his readers, but any child under the age of 12 is going to get frustrated and I doubt many children over age 12 will enjoy wading through its difficult prose either. Also, this is a strange childrens book in that the main character is not a child, but a 19 yr old man with an eye for comely barmaids.
However, if one can get through the rather awkward writing style and the cursory introductions to key characters, "The Dark Frigate" becomes a real page turner when the pirates enter the story and remains one until the last couple of chapters when the author tries to wrap everything up a little too quickly. The chapters dealing with the pirates, though, make for an extremely entertaining and exciting tale. It's those chapters that made me understand why this book won the Newbery.
Although, written for children, "The Dark Frigate" is a rather grown-up book with murders being described in grisly detail, implied torture, hangings, and female characters who aren't exactly chaste maidens. I guess children in the 20's weren't handled with kid gloves when it came to describing the seedier elements of life.
Rating: 5
Summary: Can Philip get away from the mutineers?
Comment: This book was winner of the 1924 Newbery Medal for best contribution to American children's literature (Unfortunately, Hawes died before the Medal was awarded). It focuses on an English lad named Philip Marsham in the 1640s who signs up for duty on a frigate. The ship is taken over by others and is converted into a pirate ship. Philip has to find a way off the ship and back to England. And, the adventures begin! Boy, I wish I had found this book when I was a kid. Iwould have loved it. Even now, as an adult, I enjoyed it.
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Title: The Trumpeter of Krakow by Janina Domanska, Eric P. Kelly ISBN: 0689715714 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, John Merriman ISBN: 0871401754 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The White Stag by Kate Seredy ISBN: 0140312587 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1979 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting ISBN: 0440400023 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Boris Artzybasheff ISBN: 0525304002 Publisher: Dutton Books Pub. Date: July, 1968 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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