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1972
(first published 1971)
by Macmillan
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Paperback, 288 pages
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0330233211
(isbn13: 9780330233217)
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Read in March, 2008
In this installment Flashman works as a crewmember on a slave ship traveling from Europe to Africa and then on to New Orleans, where he ends up working for the underground railroad assisting runaway slaves to escape to the north. Of course, his participation in both these occupations is involuntary and since they both involve personal danger he isn't well pleased with either of them.
This book was very good, perhaps my favorite so far, but it did have me cringing in places. I avoide...more
This book was very good, perhaps my favorite so far, but it did have me cringing in places. I avoide...more
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Read in April, 2008
Dealing with slavery, among other things,this is the most Politically Incorrect book yet in the series. I am a huge fan of all Flashman's adventures yet I found this one to be less enjoyable than most; somehow it lacks grandeur and a sense of adventure. The slave trade simply isn't as interesting as the Afghan War or The Sepoy Rebellion or the Charge of the Light Brigade. However,the character of Harry Flashman is such a devilish cad,coward, bully and toady that I can't help but laugh at his h...more
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Read in September, 2008
I used to keep a running list of things that are almost always funny. Cars that gradually fall apart during the course of a movie, for instance, so that by the end the characters are driving down the road without doors, are funny. I think that there is probably also a list of things that can never be made funny. I think that slavery falls into that category. I understand that lots of offensive things, when presented well and properly rejected, can be funny, but I think you are going to fail ...more
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Read in January, 1980
The great rascal and cad, Harry Flashman, finds himself running from the law, in rare innocence (comparatively) this time and straight into the hell of the slave trade. This is part of the fabulous comic series of novels centering around one of Victorian England's most decorated heros and its greatest coward, Harry Flashman. These books satirize the Victorian era, and most especially its moral hyprocracy and what better subject for this than the slave trade?
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Flashman fans.
This is the third in the series of "memoirs" about Harry Flashman -- a cad, a bounder, and a coward. A man with few redeeming qualities but an uncanny knack for self-preservation.
The novels are set up as humorous memoirs, in which he tells of his exploits as he is thrown into various situations that correspond to actual historical events, meeting numerous historical figures (in this novel, he meets Lincoln and Benjamin Disraeli, among others).
I enjoyed the fir...more
The novels are set up as humorous memoirs, in which he tells of his exploits as he is thrown into various situations that correspond to actual historical events, meeting numerous historical figures (in this novel, he meets Lincoln and Benjamin Disraeli, among others).
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One thing I love about this book is that Flashy eventually sees the slavery question from all sides and hears about it too: from taking delivery of slaves in Africa on a slaver to the barracoons in Central America to the Underground Railroad to working as a driver on a plantation to being sold as a slave himself to selling a slave on an auction block to being pursued by slave catchers. Now whether Flashy actually learned anything from this or not, I don't know. He purports not to have changed, ...more
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Read in January, 2007
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Ok, to some this is trash...but it is really great trash. Seriously though, the Flashman series is well written and historically accurate(the books has footnotes)of course with exception of Flashman. In this installment, Flashman is sent to a slaver ship by his father in law to avoid felony charges of beating up a well to do personage in English society. There thru Flashman's eyes we see how the slave trade was done. He later takes on the persona of dead RN lieutant with papers implicating o...more
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Read in December, 2008
Definitely not one of Flashy's better outings. Though, having read a number of these over the years, I may simply be less impressed with the same old formula employed again and again.
Still, reading Flash is like catching up with an old friend (of sorts).
Still, reading Flash is like catching up with an old friend (of sorts).
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Read in November, 2008
I agree with my brother to a certain extent that this book walked a fine line with the slavery issue, but I think that Fraser addressed the topic as tactfully and compassionately as possible with a dastardly racist as the narrator. I also think that his realistic portrayal of the abolucionists as good hearted people who still held an appalling attitude towards Africans and mixed race people by todays standards. I found the book exquisitly detailed and the descriptions of Memphis, St. Luis and Ne...more
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This is the 3rd in the series that Alex, and I, love. They are so politically uncorrect and funny. Great historical research and fun, from the point of view of the anti-hero, cad, bounder and lusty Flashman. The un-pc version of Master & commander...
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Kicks ass, rollicking good read about an English officer who's a total bastard yet always lands with his ass in the butter... very funny, raunchy and educational, as the author always portrays him crucial historical events that changed history.
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another great one on the series. love the flashman. he is up to his neck in trouble and blamming everyone else as usual. he is so much fun to follow.
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Crossing the Ohio on ice flows escaping bounty hunters - where have we read this before? Fun, fun, fun, but not the American history in textbooks.
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Read in May, 2007
I have to shake my head in utter amazement at exactly how close GMF can get to the line without crossing it. Wow.
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Read in July, 2007
my favorite flashman so far. i liked the american history aspect and especially his encounters with lincoln.
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These books are gold. Perfect book to zone out reading on a rainy day.
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Read in June, 2008
Flashy and slaverunning... classic!
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Read in November, 1987
recommends it for:
Well, no one, but it is still good
English History. Human Nature.
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