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The Pearl Stallion
The Pearl Stallion by Rae Muir released on Jan 25, 1996 is available now for purchase.
298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1996
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Did Not Finish
July 25, 2016I'm so bored. DNF on page 50.
June 13, 2010
I like my historical romances to feel and read real. It is evident the author knows history. She describes the role of English women in India in the 1800's very well, knows the sound and feel of a ship on the open ocean, knows the China trade. She puts it together in a book that flows.
Anson Saurage is the master of the Pearl Stallion, an East Indiaman that plies the one to two year route from India to Spanish Californa to Russian Alaska. Across the Pacific to the Sandwich Islands and on to China, back to India and possibly from there to England.
Dina Wilmount thinks by stowing away on the Pearl Stallion will get her back to England, but no such luck. During the next year she learns navigation, how to sew, teaches English to crew members, and falls in love with Saurage.
Saurage is an alienated man with possibly one friend, the ship's doctor.
Without really knowing it, he uses Dina as a sounding board for his ideas and hopes by long talks with her that are really with himself. It is her presence that is important.
I sent in a card for 4 new Harliquin authors and this is the only one that I kept. I don't know if the author ever wrote anything else but this one I liked.
Anson Saurage is the master of the Pearl Stallion, an East Indiaman that plies the one to two year route from India to Spanish Californa to Russian Alaska. Across the Pacific to the Sandwich Islands and on to China, back to India and possibly from there to England.
Dina Wilmount thinks by stowing away on the Pearl Stallion will get her back to England, but no such luck. During the next year she learns navigation, how to sew, teaches English to crew members, and falls in love with Saurage.
Saurage is an alienated man with possibly one friend, the ship's doctor.
Without really knowing it, he uses Dina as a sounding board for his ideas and hopes by long talks with her that are really with himself. It is her presence that is important.
I sent in a card for 4 new Harliquin authors and this is the only one that I kept. I don't know if the author ever wrote anything else but this one I liked.
August 13, 2016
Endine 'Dina' Wilmount is sent to India, from one uncle to another, to find a husband. Uncle George wants her to marry Capt Freemantle. Dina has no illusions about marriage, but refuses to wed the cruel and dishonest Freemantle. She decides to return to England aboard the Pearl Stallion about to leave port. Capt Anson Saurage intends to return her to Calcutta, but storms, sabotage to their water and a bad navigator all play a part in her staying aboard. The story involves the ship's journey to Russian America (today's Northern CA and southern Alaska), Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), China and then back to India over the course of a year. During the trip Dina learns to sew, navigate and teaches the sailors to read and write. It is not glorified and she makes many mistakes. The Capt and crew are partners in all things, so Dina is off limits to all; eventually forming deep friendships with the men. Dina's and Anson's relationship builds slowly. I really liked the depth of character portrayed by the author. Very well done.
October 17, 2014
did not really enjoy it
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