![]() ![]() ![]() Cordingly does a magnificent job of providing details of pirate life: who these men (and women) were, why they became outlaws on. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)), and having read Cordingly's Women Sailors and Sailors' Women, Under the Black Flag was a natural choice for a summer read. ![]() The communion between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys in reading, and all our discriminations should curve toward that end. As a fan of nautical fiction (Master and Commander (Vol. Better to praise and share than blame and ban. ![]() Sure it's his and not yours? To these concrete five might be added a vaguer sixth, having to do with maintaining a chemical purity in the reaction between product and appraiser.Review the book, not the reputation. He is a graduate of Oxford and the renowned author of the definitive book on pirates, Under the Black Flag, as well as Seafaring Women and Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander. If the book is judged deficient, cite a successful example along the same lines, from the author's oeuvre or elsewhere. Publication date Topics History: World, History, History - General History, Maritime History, History / General. David Cordingly was for 12 years on the staff of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, where he was curator of paintings and then head of exhibitions. Go easy on plot summary, and do not give away the ending. Confirm your description of the book with quotation from the book, if only phrase-long, rather than proceeding by fuzzy precis. Give him enough direct quotation-at least one extended passage-of the book's prose so the review's reader can form his own impression, can get his own taste. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt. ![]()
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