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Title: Is this book a cleverly disguised spoof?
Review: I have a collection of hundreds of tall ship volumes, and have read all the greats, but this one stands alone. It reeks like rotten seaweed! This author demonstrates for us a virtually encyclopedic lack of knowledge of the tall ships era. He also treats us to an overlayment of the modern American navy ethos and personnel relationships onto the tall ships British navy. This lends the same verisimilitude as would cast-iron sails. The critic who called this utter dreck was too kind by half, and I felt constrained by a system that apparently has no rating below one star.
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