Flashman vs the slave trade
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The third of the Flashman series is a sublime meeting of form and function, way ahead of the first two novels. Wrapped up in a fast-moving, funny and genuinely exciting yarn is the author's well-researched mission to inform us of the horror, the complexity and the importance in the 19th century of the slave trade. Who better to cast a cynical eye on that most immoral of endeavours (almost incomprehensible to the modern mind) than our amoral `hands-on' anti-hero, Flashman? The author takes our engagingly unreliable, notoriously non-PC guide through the whole process, from the slave ship picking up its miserable cargo on the African coast, through the markets and the plantations of the slave states and on to the underground abolitionists helping runaways escape North. Even throws in a pivotal encounter with a young Abe Lincoln. Brilliant stuff, informing and entertaining in equal measure.
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Flashman Comes to America (part 5 of 12)
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Harry Flashman comes to America, not of his own choosing, and not aboard a luxury Ocean cruiser with the cream of society. But again Flash is on the run after a game of 21 ends up with him in hot water. Needing a quick exit he has no choice but to board a slaver. Soon he is out of one bed and into another, out of one frying pan and into another. Find out which bed and which frying pan now! Once you open the first page you will be dying to find out who is trying to trim Flash's mustache.
The great thing about Flashman is the historic journeys that he takes you on which you do not learn at school in your history lessons. The slave trade was not the finest hour of the British Empire, but here the author enters the subject with abandon. And we also meet some truly influential historical figures in Disraeli and Lincoln.
A 6-SHOOTER of a read: historical, humorous, educational, tense, sexy, and the best of British.
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Nefarious dealings
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This is a story with a lesson. Never play vingt-et-un with Disraeli! Flashy is in a spot of bother again and the father in law packs him off to the Americas. Lucky escape you might think? But the ship he travels in happens to be a slaver. Damned inconvenient!
A series of leaps between frying pans and fires adds up to another exciting adventure for Flashy. Just watch out for that cad Abe Lincoln, he might be a bit of a bounder.
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Shiver me timbers.
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Fantastic! It is impossible not to give any Flashman a 5 out of 5 and this one certainly does not disappoint.
Who would have thought that a simple game of pontoon with the ladies could have led to the latest enstalment of trouble that our Anti Hero Lt Harry Flashman manages to get himself into.
Its a rollercoaster ride that takes Flashman on a slave boat owned by his father in law, firstly to the West Coast of Africa and then, not without incident across the atlantic,chased by the US Navy, to New Orleans and then on the run through the new world as our resident coward and womaniser attempts to make his way to his beloved Enland without getting intered by the authorities, shot by aggrieved husbands or forced into marriage by large breasted brothel owners. A Flashman book would not be the same without running into notable characters in history, and believe me, as normal you will not be disappointed. This is a hugely funny book, and although it has an important message regarding our history, it gives this message without taking us away from the reason we are reading this book, and this is to have fun. Believe me you will have fun.
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Hollo, thinks I, what fabulous entertainment!
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Flashman is at it again, and how! From the whorehouses and lordly mansions of London via a passage on a slave-ship (meet John Charity Spring, a lunatic captain spouting Latin quotes from Horace and the like) to the slave states of the United States... As ever Flash lies, cheats and swindles his way out of every pickle, fornicating lustily whenever opportunity arises.
Never met a more instantly likeable hero (if that's the right word), who never fails to keep you enthralled and thoroughly entertained with his incredible adventures. Buy it, and enjoy!
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