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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Snack Food reading,
By frumiousb "frumiousb" (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
This review is from: Ghosts, Gales and Gold (Hardcover)
While the anecdotes Rowe relates in this book are entertaining enough, the treatment of them is very superficial. And (with the exception of the background into Captain Kidd) you don't get a sense of much historic background. In fact, Rowe likes to repeat popular myth about this figures that he knows to be false in a very confusing way, so that it's almost unclear that he knows it's false.The selection of folk tales and history ranges from the history of the life-savers to pirates to sunken gold ships to ghosts. An entertaining enough read for a vacation or a Sunday afternoon. Also useful as a pointer to myths and histories worth following up in more depth. |
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Ghosts, Gales and Gold by Edward Rowe Snow (Hardcover - June 1, 1990)
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