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by: Wilbur A. Smith See Larger Image Used Price: $1.25 Third Party New Price: $12.00 Binding: Audio Cassette Dewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780787114688 Format: Abridged ISBN: 0787114685 Label: Audio Literature Manufacturer: Audio Literature Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: 1997-06 Publisher: Audio Literature Sales Rank: 876688 Studio: Audio Literature Related Items: Monsoon (Courtney Family Adventures) Blue Horizon (Courtney Family Adventures) When the Lion Feeds A Sparrow Falls The Sound of Thunder see more Editorial Review: Product Description: In 1667, Sir Francis Courteney and his son Hal, on patrol in their fighting carabel off the the coast of Southern Africa, begin a quest for adventure and the spoils of war that sweeps them from the settlement of Good Hope to the Great Horn of Ethiopia--at a time when international maritime law permitted acts of piracy, rape and murder otherwise punishable by death. Simultaneous hardcover release from St. Martin's Press. 4 cassettes. Amazon.com Review: Look up 'classic adventure novel' in the dictionary and you'll find the strong and capable features of South Africa's own Wilbur Smith, who--in books as varied and enjoyable as River God, The Seventh Scroll, When the Lion Feeds, and The Diamond Hunters--displays an awesome storytelling ability. His latest is one of his best efforts: a richly detailed story of war and piracy on the high seas in 1667, 150 years before Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey and Maturin books. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Bird of prey What a great surprise to find this book in perfect conditon at such a great price. thank you also for your promptness Rating: - great swashbucking fun What a treat for me. I had never before read a "swashbuckling" adventure story. Despite not understanding anything about ships and sailing(lots of the language was foreign to me) I was totally engrossed and caught up in the universal themes of strong family and friendship bonds, loyalty, revenge, good vs. evil, etc. To its credit, this book just takes you away. It reads very quickly(once you skip over nautical stuff). Rating: - Avast me hearties, a Pirates life An exciting read that is a kind of cross between Treasure IslandTreasure Island: The Graphic Novel (Puffin Graphics) and Anthony Adverse in Africa Anthony Adverse in Africa. It has a little too much sexual content for even an high school level but not very exceptional for popular novels today. Details of sea life and the hardships of prisoners is vivid and realistic, but the compounding of gun powder in the African wilderness is very unlikely. Some suspension of credibility ... Read More Rating: - Stereotypical adventure genre This was my first Wilbur Smith book. I thought it was all right for an adventure genre. There is enough historical research to add color. And it certainly moves along well. Many of the events are not believable, but you can say the same for James Bond. The book jumps between history and legend easily and superficially. Boys grow into manhood overnight. Women fall deeply in love by seeing someone from afar. Crocodiles are much more aggressive than in real life. But it is easy reading for passing ... Read More Rating: - Fantasy, not history I was disappointed in this one because I was expecting something as well-researched and based in history as the old Hornblower novels. Suffice to say this one ain't. It is riddled with historical inaccuracies. There was no war between the Moghuls and the kingdom of "Prester John" at that time. And there are so many little details which a modicum of research would have revealed, such as the (Urdu speaking) Moghul Maharaja speaking Arabic, or a description of what is obviously a hummingbird (which lives ... Read More see more Browse for similar items by category: Books on Cassette - Audiobooks - Formats - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General Literature & Fiction - Books on Cassette - Audiobooks - Formats - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - Books - General Genre Fiction - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - Historical Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - Contemporary General - Literature & Fiction - Subjects - Books - General AAS