By Charles Boardman Hawes
5 Stars
Action/Adventure/Suspense
Adult
This
was a classic book that was recommended reading for my children's
homeschooling literature course. My daughter hated the book. I don't
believe the problem was the story line. This book was published
nearly a hundred years ago and it was set even earlier. For young
people, I would say the language and expressions are difficult
because that is not how people talk today. She might enjoy the book
more now as an adult although it really isn't her favoured genre. I
liked the story a lot. Action, adventure and great characters. I
liked Shakespeare as well.
The
hero of the story is a dashing young sailor named Philip Marsham. He
gets himself into a bit of hot water at the beginning of the story
and has to flee London. He ends up finally shipping out of another
port with a companion he met along the way on the Rose of Devon. That
ship picks up survivors from a sinking ship off Newfoundland. They
turned out to be pirates who took over the ship. Marsham was forced
to join them or die.
I
recommend the book but not for children. Sure some of them would like
it but the majority will react like my daughter did. It is a good
book. Sad that the author only lived long enough to write two books.
