Sea of Grey
A Historical, Fiction book. This is the 10th of the Alan Lewrie series of...
Captain Alan Lewrie returns in Dewey Lambdin's tenth roaring adventure on the high seas. This time, it's off to a failing British intervention on the ultra-rich French colony of Saint Domingue, wracked by an utterly cruel and bloodthirsty slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the future father of Haitian independence. Beset and distracted though he might be, it will take all of Lewrie's pluck, daring, skill, and his usual tongue-in-cheek deviousness, to navigate all the perils in a sea of grey.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9780312320164 / 312320167
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There are not enough quotation marks in the english language to serve Mr Lambdin's inscrutable purposes. After the first few pages, I expected they would begin to disappear as arcane seafaring jargon and military terms were defined. However, the author does not treat his readers as nearly intelligent enough to "get" his meanings: exactly... That this book's slut protagonist is supposed to help in the racist oppression & enslavement of the islanders is in itself outrageously offensive: it's exactly like an Italian helping Hitler to repress Jewish resistance. . . as an adventurous lark, at that. It's to be expected that Americans would gloss over this as unimportant, as... This is the 10th of the Alan Lewrie series of naval adventures that take place in the late 18th/early 19th centuries. Lewrie is still captain of the HMS Proteus, one of the British navy's newest frigates. Lewrie's amorous and frolicking past comes to haunt him when an unidentified individual writes his wife Caroline, advising her of...
