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On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers

Description: ISBN 1930235321 / Author: Tim Powers / Genre: Fiction

Newest Review: ... the Caribbean. Then there is the mysterious Benjamin Hurwood, distraught from the loss of his wife, and the weird box he ... more

... always has by him. It’s extremely interesting to watch how all of these stories come together, and the imagination put into this is superb. These stories are not simultaneously solves, and are not always active at the same time, but even when some of the stories are mixed together it is never confusing to read and nearly all of the time you know exactly what is happening and why. At times in the book I was confused, not over the major story lines but by miniature things-such as why a certain thing did/didn’t hap...more

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~Book Info~ Title: On Stranger Tides Author: Tim Powers Genre: Fiction. Adventure (Piratey) ISBN: 978-1-930235-32-8. Publisher: Babbage Press (1988) www.amazon.co.uk price: £10.95 plus P&P. Pages: 370 (Quite large writing but quite a big book-larger than A5) John Chandagnac, a British Accountant during the 18th Century, whilst on a journey to meet his fraudster uncle Sebastian, is captured by a Pirate crew and forced to work upon the ‘Vociferous Carmichael’. Along with Beth Hurwood and her father, fellow passengers also aboard the now pirate ship; they are taken on a mysterious adventure of the pirates too. ... Read the complete review