JIM DAVIS [Hardcover]

John Masefield (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Macmillan 1967, 6th Printing (1967)
• ASIN: B0020I6AHM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Traditional English high adventure literature, February 14, 2001

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Richard C Mallory (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jim Davis (Library Binding)

If you like Robert Louis Stevenson, you will thoroughly enjoy Masefield's Jim Davis. I first read this at age 14 (with some vocab help from dear old dad) and it remains one of the best books I have read in a long while. Being a history major and an english minor I found the prose of this book delightful and the historical significance astounding. If you are an adult who has read and re-read Stevenson too much and want the same genre but a different author/plot Jim Davis is the novel for you. If you have a child whom you wish to turn onto fine literature Jim Davis will grab your child's imagination and illustrate a grand adventure of pirates, smugglers, soldiers and gypsies for it. Any child (old or young) can relate to the stories narrator, this is a jewel of English literature. Another great Stevenson alternate is J. Meade Falkner's Moonfleet, it is a bit of an easier read than Jim Davis, but contains just as much adventure.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Boy's Adventures Along the Devon Coast, February 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Jim Davis (Library Binding)

This story is set in early 19th century Devon, during the Napoleonic Wars. The narrator is a boy in his early teens, who by chance and high spirits falls in with a gang of smugglers bringing contraband by sea from France to England. It's a fast-moving story, in the tradition of R. L. Stevenson, and a good look at the history of the period along England's south coast too.

5.0 out of 5 stars A poet's adventure novel, September 7, 2011

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othoniaboys - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jim Davis (Kindle Edition)

Masefield is usually classified as a poet, which he was, but he also wrote novels, among them this somewhat overlooked gem of adventure for boys. I found it quite charming and would recommend it to any boy who daydreams of going back in history and taking part in thrilling scrapes.