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Title: A Magical journey
Review: This is a BIG read-a fairytale for grownups.Adolescent Una is wisely sent to live with her mothers sister,in a lighthouse,to avoid the increasing possibility of abuse by her father,a religious fanatic. She spends four happy years with them before running away to sea,disguised as a boy,with two young men to whom she is equally attracted.This book is the story of her three marriages,the second of which is to Captain Ahab,a whaler and declared mortal enemy of Moby Dick,the great white whale. We follow Una through tragedies,joys,the loss of two husbands and a baby,to where she finally reaches true happiness and fulfillment. The book is peopled with an assortment of fascinating characters,and M/s Naslund paints incredibly beautiful and vivid word pictures of Nantucket and both the beauty and horror of living in a coastal town with all it's connections to the barbarities of the whaling trade.
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