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| AUTHOR: | James Houston |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | McClelland & Stewart |
| ISBN: | 0771042094 |
| TYPE: | Seafaring life, Fiction - Historical, Fiction, Whaling, Historical - General, Fiction / General, Action & Adventure, Arctic Regions, Historical fiction |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of The Ice Master
Historical Fiction? This book lacks both. I was more interested in the whaling industry & life in the artic, and could have done without much of a story line (see Safe Return Doubtful). This book failed on both counts. There's not much of a story, and Houston tries to weave in the few historical facts through character dialog-- ends up sounding like a telecommunications commercial. And the history, the life that whalers had to live, what it was like enduring an artic winter, how whales were taken and processed, the Inuit culture-- sadly neglected. I hate being this harsh, but....
Anyway, if you still want to try it, you'll find my copy on the shelf at buck-a-book.
Subject matter is well known but could be better written.
James Houston knows his subject matter very well, as is obvious from his attention to detail and the illistrations. However, I found it very difficult to stay focused on the story.