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... class family her dramatic focus, has presented that dynamic period to us in miniature. NOW, to leave novels for a moment, Caribbean Nights by William J. Makin (Robert Hale, 12s. 6d.) is an unusual travel book by this popular author, recount ing his experiences ...

Published: Sunday 01 October 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2495 | Page: 84 | Tags: Review 

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... Spain for Mr. Secretary Walsingham; the other is all for Drake, Hawkins, and the Spanish Main. Both eventually meet in the Caribbean when Amyas boards the Spanish ship in which Roger, a prisoner, serves as galley slave. A novel of piping adventure, with ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1375 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

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... Tom Dover, a poor doctor in Defoe's London, Queen Anne's Eng land, who becomes the hero of breath taking exploits in the Caribbean and Pacific. We loved this kind of story in blood-and- thunder youth why not again, for light re creation, in the Income ...

Published: Thursday 01 April 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1491 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

TOM BONE

... Charles B. Judah's Tom Bone (Hammond, 12s. 6d.) a 17th- century action story of romantic adventure partly in the piratical Caribbean Mr. A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky (Boardman, 12s. 6d.), a tough U.S. pioneering yarn of the kind that always has Injuns, ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1340 | Page: 68 | Tags: Review 

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... Books Reviewed by Trevor zAllen BROWNING never wrote Oh, to be in the Caribbean, now that April's there The misquote is mine, after reading in Rosita Forbes's Islands in the Sun (Evans, 12s. 6d.) Sea-murmur under palm trees, music imported from three ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1239 | Page: 90 | Tags: Review 

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... in haste. and repents at leisure. The others have similarly well-told if less well-worn themes. A TROPICAL romance of a Caribbean island in the bad slave days is Joseph Cabot's Golden Gates (Museum Press, 9s. 6d.), in which the Governor's wife falls ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1385 | Page: 78 | Tags: Review 

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... midshipman Mr. Nel at fifteen, and culminating in marriage to Fanny Nisbet. In between were admiral's wife Lady Parker (Caribbean), provost-marshal's daughter Virginie Simpson (Quebec), Indian chief's daughter Chetuma, Rose Andrews, Mrs. Moutray and all ...

Published: Wednesday 01 July 1953
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1553 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review