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Views: 45This book review may be secretly paid for by Yankee Corporations out of Boston Massachusetts. The Lizards send their people on ships stocked full of provisions, sailors, sail makers, carpenters, captain, and officers. Yes, this is the invasion story. There was no battle for California. The land described by this man, Richard Henry Dana,… Continue reading Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. book review

Views: 118She’s got red hair, a yellow glare, cream colored curves. Her name is Jirel of Joiry. She wears iron greaves around her ankles. Sword Play. She killed her boyfriend. She must travel the underworld to set his miserable soul free. She’s a killer. Jirel of Joiry. by C.L. Moore Some of my highlights: Jirel… Continue reading Jirel of Joiry by C. L. Moore book review

Views: 35You are a man. You decide to sail alone around the world in a 39 foot sloop. It’s 1895. You are there. The storm arrives, you lash the rudder and sail to the edge of the map. Supposedly, they didn’t have GPS back then. But they also told you to put your child in… Continue reading Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum book review

Views: 63Clif High told me to read this book. Steinbeck being a great American author, and given our current circumstance (imminent social order upheaval and financial collapse), it was Clif’s idea that our experience would be similar to Steinbeck’s description in this book. I would have to disagree. If you are going to read American… Continue reading Cannery Row by John Steinbeck book review

Views: 65The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville 1322 Here’s an ancient travel book for would-be pilgrims to the Holy Land. Don’t forget vaccine passport and biological test results when you go to the high point of the world, the very center according to their maps- The Holy Land. The crusades, the pilgrimage.… Continue reading The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville book review

Views: 85Go with me to the sea as a rich gentleman, stealing away your 17 year old lover from a catholic girl’s school with newly acquired yacht and crew to sail her away in this romantic seagoing elopement. If you are in the gentleman’s club, and not blocked from all paths of free action and… Continue reading A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell book review