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Bezig met laden... Delilah (1941)door Marcus Goodrich
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 3624. Delilah, by Marcus Goodrich (read Sept 4,2002) This is a book I have long wanted to read. It is I think its author's only work, at least his only famous one, and was published in 1941. It is laid aboard a destroyer in the Philippines just before World War One, and reeks authenticity re naval life. I found this a great, great book, with the most exciting finale I have read since I read Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor (Mar 17, 1997). geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The twentieth-century classic that inspired a generation of nautical novels. Delilah is an old four-piper destroyer whose regular beat is one of the world's most exotic - and dangerous - bodies of water: the Sulu Sea. Set at the beginning of the American century just before the Great War, this novel tells the story of how the ship and her crew patrol the islands in the time of violent racial and religious unrest. In a series of exquisitely drawn stories, Marcus Goodrich gives the reader a tantalizing glimpse into the heart of each crewmember as the ship puts down Philippine insurrections, searches for a gunrunner's cave told of only in island folklore, and delivers medicine to western missionaries who would rather see the medicine destroyed than have it distributed to non-Christians. What emerges is a sensuous tapestry of the sailors' lives, which are bound inextricably to the fate of their strange family on the Delilah. Here is the return of one of the twentieth century's most important and widely translated novels of the sea. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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More about the ship Chauncey on which the story was based, a ship of which Goodrich was a survivor when it sank.
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