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Patrick Peterson
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Very gripping.
Excellent character development.
Neat details about sailing difficulties.
And the gruesome health conditions and lack of modern understanding of disease - really a sober reminder of the progress that has been made. The needless deaths, so so many of them, just from an easily preventable scurvy. Tragic.
— Mar 06, 2024 08:46AM
Excellent character development.
Neat details about sailing difficulties.
And the gruesome health conditions and lack of modern understanding of disease - really a sober reminder of the progress that has been made. The needless deaths, so so many of them, just from an easily preventable scurvy. Tragic.
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Patrick Peterson
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2024-03-03 Gripping.
Personalizes some main characters and draws a graphic portrait of how ridiculous the war's purpose and execution was that set the path of the ship The Wager. Ridiculous it may be, but the people affected were real and their plight made much worse by the ideas and policies of the imperialist policies of Britain, Spain and other countries.
— Mar 03, 2024 09:09AM
Personalizes some main characters and draws a graphic portrait of how ridiculous the war's purpose and execution was that set the path of the ship The Wager. Ridiculous it may be, but the people affected were real and their plight made much worse by the ideas and policies of the imperialist policies of Britain, Spain and other countries.
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Mar 06, 2024 09:49AM
Also currently reading this. Interesting to note how easily the social order crumbles into total chaos.
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easily?If you are talking about the Misery's crew, I would never describe their downfall as "how easily the social order crumbles into chaos."
The misery, death, deprivation, harsh conditions, overwork, etc. etc. was enough to drive any of the (relatively few) survivors mad.
