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Sheer Delight! Sep 20, 2006
By PETER H. OSBORNE
What a wonderful book! Once again Mr. Harris has displayed his inimitable skills as storyteller and wordsmith. And what a delightful story it is! Transporting the reader back three hundred and fifty odd years is not at an easy task at the best of times but Mr. Harris succeeds with such a degree of realism that one cannot help but feel an active participant as the various and history-changing events unfold.
This is truly a wonderful tale exquisitely told, only the true historian would be bold enough to attempt to seperate fact from speculation, so well woven are the characters and events that make up this fascinating tale. Mr. Harris has an uncommon knack for capturing the reader and keeping them spell-bound right through to the last page. This indeed, is a very difficult book to put down.
If one may mention a niggling but hopefully constructive criticism it is simply that this tome cries out for some illustration ~ period maps would be extremely helpful, along, perhaps with sketches of the main characters, dwellings, ships, etc., etc., etc. This would, I respectfully submit, draw the reader even further into the somewhat difficult (at least, for some) life of the seventeenth century. Perhaps in the next printing........
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The Saga continues May 12, 2006
By badinfluence
"badinfluence"
Mr. Harris wrote a very enjoyable book. It is written in such a way that you feel like you are there. The book is a combination of fact and fiction, in an attempt to connect Sir William Phip's to the unsolved question "What is buried under Oak Island, Nova Scotia". It will be interesting, once the Oak Island mystery is solved, to see just how close he was. Anyone interesting in the Oak Island mystery will enjoy this rendering.
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