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Title: Motoo Eetee: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Irv C. Rogers ISBN: 1-59013-018-9 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Escape to the South Pacific
Comment: An engaging story which takes you to another time and place. You will smell the salt air and hear the ropes creak as you sail with the crew aboard the sealing ship, the "Dove". The author's detailed knowedge of ships and the speech of the time will propell you directly into the 19th century where you will marvel at the cleverness and inventiveness of the shipwrecked men. Between the settings of the tired ship and the beautiful island, Rogers creates an adventure of old world proportions. A great read!

Rating: 5
Summary: motoo eetee
Comment: wanna escape ? early 1800's young strong guy looking for adventure signs up ......the "DOVE" ......sealing in the southern Pacific , promise of riches gone.............?
Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World.......drama survival awakenings,.........spirit !
This read is FUN ! annd mooving, Irv tells it like it is ....cept it's DEJA VU for all you sea dogs, Cornwell does't come close,......check it out.

Rating: 3
Summary: Motoo Eetee
Comment: Despite the blurbs by excellent authors and the good reviews, I didn't find this book to be all that successful, and I admit I don't see the literary significance.

Four seamen -- the captain, first mate, an ordinary seaman and the ship's carpenter -- off a sealing vessel are shipwrecked on an island. The captain proves to be somewhat less than sane, and events deteriorate from there. Details of the castaways' survival -- diet, clothing, canoe-building, and so on -- as well as description of the island setting are given at length.

I found the writing style here a little mundane and sometimes wordier than it had to be. POV is strange, semi-omniscient with occasional forays into limited, including the book's conclusion.

Characters are two-dimensional. Thomas, whose POV we are most often in, is a somewhat unpleasant, selfish, crude individual. His hatred of the undeniably overbearing officers is a major theme, but it never really gets developed. It's all sort of childish resentment of being told what to do; there's no exploration of social class or any other deeper element. It's hard to care for Thomas even when he's in trouble, because he doesn't have sympathetic qualities. His friend Christopher is all-good, cheerful and self-sacrificing. The ship's captain is an unbelievable, half-baked fanatic, a cardboard villain one of whose major crimes appears to be an unlovely personal appearance. And the fourth character, the mate Morgen, is so blank that even the blurb on the book cover could only think of "pedestrian" for him.

The conclusion is peculiarly unsatisfying; we're left hanging, with the physical fate of the one still-living character remaining in the balance, but more importantly with the themes of the book, such as they are, unresolved. To a limited extent, the book raises questions about authority, fanaticism, and class, but it does not offer even limited conclusions.

It's not all bad. The plot does move along with sufficient action, and I found the book reasonably entertaining. I don't, however, think there are grounds for hailing this as a significant work of literature. A competent afternoon's read, yes.