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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sea Captains at home
This is a slice of life in the 1849 shipping port of Salem. The narrative centers on the families of two seafaring captains, highlighting the difference in fortune, caused both by choices and by chance. The title of the book, Java Head, is the name that Jeremy Ammidon gave to the house he built in Salem when he retired from sailing to found a shipping company. Java...
Published 11 months ago by Robert W. Frazer
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Stiff
Set in Salem in the early 1800s, Gerrit Ammidon returns home from the Orient with a Chinese bride, Taou Yuen. She is not accepted into Salem society. A degenerate seaman, Edward Dunsock, becomes infatuated with Gerrit's bride; out of a mixture of pride and disgust she commits suicide. Hergesheimer is unable to make Yaou Yuen a real person, and after her suicide Gerrit is...
Published on March 23, 2005 by Bomojaz
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Sea Captains at home,
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This review is from: Java Head (Kindle Edition)
This is a slice of life in the 1849 shipping port of Salem. The narrative centers on the families of two seafaring captains, highlighting the difference in fortune, caused both by choices and by chance. The title of the book, Java Head, is the name that Jeremy Ammidon gave to the house he built in Salem when he retired from sailing to found a shipping company. Java Head is the name of a rock that was the first sight of land after a blue-water voyage to the Orient. Sighting of the Java Head rock always gave Jeremy the good feeling of having arrived safely. Unfortunately, in life as in sea voyages, not every ship arrives safely.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Stiff,
By Bomojaz (South Central PA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Java Head (Hardcover)
Set in Salem in the early 1800s, Gerrit Ammidon returns home from the Orient with a Chinese bride, Taou Yuen. She is not accepted into Salem society. A degenerate seaman, Edward Dunsock, becomes infatuated with Gerrit's bride; out of a mixture of pride and disgust she commits suicide. Hergesheimer is unable to make Yaou Yuen a real person, and after her suicide Gerrit is not affected by it. This dampens the effect of the tragedy.
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JAVA HEAD (Unknown Binding - January 1, 1936)
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