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Oct 25, 2017
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I love being surprised by books. I had heard wonderful things about this book, but I wasn't won over by the blurb. I mean, a book about sailors and boats, how interesting could that really be? Aye aye Captain, loading and unloading on docks, scurvy, maggoty sea biscuits, twenty seven ways of tying a rope. Come on, 700pp of that doesn't sound like riveting reading.
But I was wrong on two counts. While there is sailing and some life on boats, there is so much more going on with these characters. Th ...more
But I was wrong on two counts. While there is sailing and some life on boats, there is so much more going on with these characters. Th ...more
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