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(More customer reviews)If you can get past Cooper's verbose and stilted prose, this is a great love letter to the skilled mariners who manned the decks during the Golden Age of Sail. Probably a full quarter of the book is devoted to depicting the moment-by-moment changes in rigging and tactics for both fight and flight in fickle weather. And that stands alone as the sole basis on which I recommend this book.
The tale is a fairly formulaic and romantic account of what amounts to just over a fortnight in the life of a gentleman pirate who commands a noble if motley crew, and the dashing young officer of the British Navy who is assigned to apprehend him in the Americas. Predictably, the protagonist finds more to admire than despise in his quarry, and the generosity & civility of the Red Rover is shown to exceed that of many commisioned sailors in service to the Crown.
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In the guise of a common sailor, Lieutenant Ark sets out on a mission to capture the mysterious and legendary pirate Red Rover. Ark soon finds himself on a sinking ship with the young Gertrude Grayson and her governess, Mrs.Wylie, only to be rescued by the enigmatic ship The Dolphin, and its even more enigmatic captain.--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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