Gave this another read (well, listen - in audio book form). It's polite. Professionally written. Never comes alive. Lacks humour. Woodes Rogers sends Jack Rackham on a mission. He falls for Anne Bonney. Gets involved in piracy, gets captured. There's not a lot of story. Little of the famous humour and historical details. The ending has Rackham saved and another person killed in his place - I feel there should be more story. There's a French pirate captain straight out of Basil Rathbone in Captain Blood and Anne B is very Maureen O'Hara. Some decent action sequences. It is of interest.
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Book review - "Captain in Calico" by George MacDonald Fraser (warning: spoilers)
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