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Title: Islands of Gold
Author: Grant Hyde
Narrator: Alan King
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-11
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The year is 1796, and three and a half years have passed since Captain Lightfoot and his crew helped restore justice and peace to Tonga. It is time for them to return to their colony in New Holland, and then on to Mother England. But fate plays strange tricks in this vast ocean, even on the true of heart, and Lightfoot and his Polynesian crew find themselves facing an old enemy. Meanwhile, far off in the Torres Strait, a Dutch East India merchant ship is wrecked on an uncharted reef. When the captain and officers are murdered by the mutinous crew, a fortune in gold and jewels locked away in the ship's belly goes up for grabs. As fate brings these two crews together, Lightfoot, Sevesi, Hurley and Hiki will encounter the ruthless Company men, warring Aborigines, brutal Portuguese authorities and man-eating crocodiles. With the odds stacked against them, will the crew of the Royal make it out alive?
Members Reviews:
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It's about adventurous times when the sea-faring powers in Europe were endeavouring to exert their influence in the newly discovered and exploited lands on the other side of the known world at that time. Sailor adventureres from Britain, France, Holland and Portugal liaise with warriors from the Pacific island Kingdom of Tonga, with the aboriginals of New Holland ( now Australia), New Guinea, Timor and the Dutch East Indies in many diverse situations.
Greed is a fundamental motivating force particularly the desire to acquire treasure in the form of a cache of gold, coins and jewels. This leads to some interesting international conflicts on land and sea. The geographic and historical information is educational but some of the logistics e.g number of people on ships is suspect. There also seems to be an endless supply of ammunition without there being a source. Well worth the read.
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Title: Islands of Gold
Author: Grant Hyde
Narrator: Alan King
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-03-11
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
The year is 1796, and three and a half years have passed since Captain Lightfoot and his crew helped restore justice and peace to Tonga. It is time for them to return to their colony in New Holland, and then on to Mother England. But fate plays strange tricks in this vast ocean, even on the true of heart, and Lightfoot and his Polynesian crew find themselves facing an old enemy. Meanwhile, far off in the Torres Strait, a Dutch East India merchant ship is wrecked on an uncharted reef. When the captain and officers are murdered by the mutinous crew, a fortune in gold and jewels locked away in the ship's belly goes up for grabs. As fate brings these two crews together, Lightfoot, Sevesi, Hurley and Hiki will encounter the ruthless Company men, warring Aborigines, brutal Portuguese authorities and man-eating crocodiles. With the odds stacked against them, will the crew of the Royal make it out alive?
Members Reviews:
Rollicking
It's about adventurous times when the sea-faring powers in Europe were endeavouring to exert their influence in the newly discovered and exploited lands on the other side of the known world at that time. Sailor adventureres from Britain, France, Holland and Portugal liaise with warriors from the Pacific island Kingdom of Tonga, with the aboriginals of New Holland ( now Australia), New Guinea, Timor and the Dutch East Indies in many diverse situations.
Greed is a fundamental motivating force particularly the desire to acquire treasure in the form of a cache of gold, coins and jewels. This leads to some interesting international conflicts on land and sea. The geographic and historical information is educational but some of the logistics e.g number of people on ships is suspect. There also seems to be an endless supply of ammunition without there being a source. Well worth the read.