Monsoon

by Wilbur Smith | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0330376799 Global Overview for this book
Registered by winglmn60wing of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 3/14/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by winglmn60wing from Spotswood, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, March 14, 2006
This was brought to meetup by FHJ, but he hadn't had time to register it... so I'm doing it for him!

Mt TBR is threatening to overwhelm me, so I'll release this one soon...

Amazon.co.uk Review
"Before there was empire, there was trade, and military force to protect that trade. Wilbur Smith's new, full-blooded historical novel starts with the commissioning, by King William III of Sir Hal Franklin. Franklin's mission is to rid the Indian Ocean of the pirate known as al-Aouf, the Bad One, and tells us more than we knew about the East India trade, Channel smuggling, the Arab slave trade and the struggle to keep Oman free from the Ottoman Empire. Smith's solid, competent prose does not always avoid the hackneyed, but effectively conveys both the heat of battle and the savoury smells of lands experienced for the first time. Hal Franklin has four sons and the complex tragedy of their relationships dominates the book as brother is pitted against brother in love, and war, and treachery. The plot, though, is only a part of what is important here; the Indian Ocean trade was the site of one of the great confrontations between the English-speaking world and Islam--a conflict, between the brash mariners with their shiny new guns and the long-established, scholarly, brave, pious rulers of Arabia and the East African coast. A conflict whose outcome was open to doubt."

Journal Entry 2 by winglmn60wing at Cherie's Essential Health Clinic in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria Australia on Thursday, March 23, 2006

Released 18 yrs ago (3/23/2006 UTC) at Cherie's Essential Health Clinic in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria Australia

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(In Hogan's Road) On the magazine pile in the waiting area.

Journal Entry 3 by wingAnonymousFinderwing on Saturday, November 11, 2006
Picked it up in the waiting room of my naturopath.
Asked if I could borrow it.
Was told as long as I place it in another surgery or place where it can be accessed by others.
As it is almost 1000 pages long I have taken an age to read it. I am working full-time and tend to fall asleep after reading a page at night!
Now I have read it, my partner is going to read it and he is a really slow reader so I'm not sure when it will be back in circulation. BUT it will be found somewhere by someone, sometime.



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