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Title: The Wing-and-Wing by James Fenimore Cooper ISBN: 0-8050-5568-1 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 22 October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Don't be afraid of Cooper
Comment: I'm glad that I read the book before looking at an earlier reviewer's description of "long winded and laborious", or I may have skipped it. It is indeed a little "slow" in the first third or so, especially if your point of reference is a Marryat novel that would have had four battles fought by that point. I found it engaging, more and more as the work progressed, and overall an excelent read. Refreshing that the hero, his enemy, and several others are not simplistically all good or all bad as so often we find in these sea tales. As well, refreshing to learn a bit of the French privateer's p.o.v.
Rating: 3
Summary: Rough Sailing
Comment: In addition to the Patrick O'Brian series, I have read several of the Heary-of-Oak series nautical fiction novels and all have been excellent. This one, however, falls short and the nautical fiction fan may grow weary of Cooper's long winded laborious style of writing. I have to admit, I couldn't get through the entire book but admit the author to be a talented writer. Nevertheless, I think the purist nautical fiction fan may prefer a less pretentious style of writing a la Forester, Marrayat, James Nelson or Richard Woodman.
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Title: Doctor Dogbody's Leg by James N. Hall ISBN: 0805058311 Publisher: Owl Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Patrick O'Brian's Navy: The Illustrated Companion to Jack Aubrey's World by Richard O'Neill, Chris Chant, David Miller, Clive, Dr., Phd Wilkinson ISBN: 0762415401 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Lord Cochrane, Seaman, Radical, Liberator: A Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald by Christopher Lloyd ISBN: 080505569X Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Mr Midshipman Easy (Classics of Nautical Fiction Series) by Frederick Marryat ISBN: 0935526404 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Decision At Trafalgar : The Story of the Greatest British Naval Battle of the Age of Nelson by Dudley Pope ISBN: 0805061363 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 14 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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