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Please don't let the 3 stars fool you: I enjoyed this book. More specifically, I enjoyed the story. Wilbur Smith excels in performing perhaps the two most important elements of fiction─ creating likable characters and detestable villains. The trouble I had was with execution. Birds of Prey has an une Leggi tutto

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the small country of The Netherlands spread its sails, to become a major world trade player. With the establishment of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, Holland was soon equal with England as king of the seas. This and other internal, external, and

A great pirate story set on east coast of Africa in the 16oo's. WS knows his sailing, his history, and as always is a world-class storyteller. What a crazy time that must have been, the age of colonial conquest. I may go back and re-read some of the others I have sitting around the house.

Preferisco la saga egizia e mi ero ripromesso di non leggere i romanzi di Smith ambientati sul mare perché so che il mare non mi entusiasma ma dato che almeno un paio di suoi romanzi in un anno li leggo ho "dovuto" accontentarmi. Si tratta di avventura allo stato puro, solito schema Smith ultra coll Leggi tutto