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Master Mariner Running Proud (Paperback)

by Nicholas Monsarrat (Author)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Master Read, Oct 27 2005
By Mitch Vineyard (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Master Mariner: Running Proud (Hardcover)
This book was loaned to me by a command ready Lieutenant Commander in the Canadian navy. Highly recommended. It lived up to the praise because from the beginning I was totally engaged by this tale of life on the seas. Monsarrat intended it to be a summing up of 400 years of mainly English sea-going history and he did his homework. Any book with narrative set hundreds of years ago contains one person's guess at what could have been said and it's true here. He's told the story as a fact based account of sea life lived by one man cursed to live forever. The background is rich with words of the day and descriptions of ships and oceans and the men and women who lived near them. As time marches on the lexicon of the day changes almost without perception. This is also a book that can rival Stephen King's best descriptions of what one man can do to another. Not for people who get disgusted easily.
Monsarrat's writing could really be described as an easy read. He doesn't weave intricate webs of plots and he doesn't load the reader down with the need to memorize a lot of names and places. He just tells a story and moves on. This might be a weakness (yes there are others). His everyman, Mathew Lawe, despite having lived for so long and with all his experiences, doesn't seem to learn by them. Monsarrat just doesn't go there. He does, however, manage to make me feel like I'm along for the ride also. What a ride it is.
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