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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver Hardcover – 2008

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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre; First Canadian edition (2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1553653394
  • ISBN-13: 978-1553653394
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsSome Madness maybe, Betrayal in part, and a lot of Lash. Life in the Royal Navy in 1790.
By Mark T. Patterson II on September 4, 2014
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This is a refreshing account of a man who history has forgotten notwithstanding all the names given by him and other people encountered in the book to places on the Pacific Northwest Coast. The work also gives one a glimpse into life in the Royal Navy at the time of the American Revolution, the mutiny on the Bounty, and the commencement of the Napoleonic wars.

Captain Vancouver also played a role in the British relationship across the Pacific as well, according to Brown, who clearly has researched his topic well.

For the historian who prefers to look at a period of time as a slice and compare what was going on this book works well. Not everything from 1770 to 1800 is covered of course, but the reader can get a sense of the forces and knowledge that lead Vancouver to make the decisions he did during his voyages.

I drop a star because the title is apparently chosen to sell the book. He could leave out the three elements mentioned; Madness et. al, and I still would have purchased the book.
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2.0 out of 5 starsMisses more interesting topics
By Steve Brooks on June 20, 2012
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George Vancouver personally is of little importance - at best footnote in history. His surveys on the North American Pacific coast were far more powerful than he was. Maddness, Betrayal and the Lash misses by focusing on Vancouver instead of his maps. One chapter begins with "Maps represented control." The tread about the power of maps is soon lost and the reader is returned to biographical details.
I didn't find the character to be overly sensational. As a former sailor, I found the characters consistent with behavior onboard ships at sea. Maddness, Betrayal, and the Lash does a good job of illustrating how hard a captain's job is. It is isolating - the captain is the only one on board who can not have friends. The captain must constantly balance good order and discipline with the risk of mutiny. Again, the desire to make the book a biography about Vancouver prevent a full exploration of this more interesting topic.
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1.0 out of 5 starsPoor Performance
By Nathaniel R. Brown on September 10, 2008
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash is one of silliest books I have not managed to finish in a very long time. Hoping for a reasonably scholarly biography of George Vancouver, I found Sunday-supplement journalism, sensationalism, sloppy writing, and a smug attitude in no way justified by Mr. Bown's own attainments. The book breaks virtually every rule of good writing.

The First Rule of good writing is Thou Shalt not Distract the Reader, and its corollary, Thou Shalt Stick to the Point. Alas, Mr. Bown peppers us with little judgments and smug asides which not only distract the reader, but cumulatively drive him to distraction. In one of very many examples, after quoting a perfectly clear passage from Vancouver's own writing, Bown gratuitously comments on "the stultified formal language of the era." Kenneth Clark once observed that it is one of the tragedies of Western Civilization that German never developed a good working prose. In the 18th century, English was doing just that; if Mr. Bown finds the precise use of a larger vocabulary than is common today, and the use of courtesy and some formality "stultifying,' why then, we must give him our sympathy, but such comments are simply not to the point. They only serve to distract the reader, as do references to scurvy as "a fashionable concern of eighteenth century physicians," to "trenchers of sloppy fermenting cabbage" (sauerkraut), "bobbing ships" which are "floating north" (apparently like rafts... ), and so on ad infinitum.

A Rule of History Writing declares that Thou Shalt Not Make up Little Fictions - even to entertain the reader. Mr. Bown however, feels that we must be constantly enlivened by bright little insertions such as this gem: "...Read more ›
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