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Title: Impressive yet dull
Review: Godshalk's book is impressive even if we didn't know that she spent somethng like 20 years working on it. Unfortunately it is a dull read with too few moments of true excitement. This book isn't like Conrad's work in that you don't get the feeling of an overarching intelligence guiding the story. It is more of a travelogue laying out the oddness of the journey and the poor, doomed English and their Empire. Perhaps if the book had been reigned in by a tougher editor and some of the details and characters condensed it would be a more interesting work but as it is I was bored for vast passages.
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