Score: 92/100 (9.2 out of 10)
“Heroin to Hero” is the incredible, inspirational true story of Paul Boggie, a man who overcame a heroin addiction to eventually become an honored member of the Scots Guard, even guarding Buckingham Palace itself! While we thought that would be the main focus of this autobiography, this book is actually quite free-flowing and varied in its content. This book reads like a collection of diary entries, chronicling Boggie's experiences from childhood to the present day. Though drugs and addiction are discussed, the book also covers his relationships with people including his daughter and current wife and his blooming love for fitness. It also greatly details his entertaining and sometimes humorous experiences in the military, on the path to becoming a Scots Guard. Something that's absolutely, positively undeniable and admirable about Boggie is that his heart is in the right place. Not only did he write this book for himself and his loved ones, but he wrote it largely to serve as an example and an inspiration to others who might be struggling. He didn't write this for profit. In fact, all profits for the book go toward helping the homeless of Scotland. Boggie believes that no one—including the homeless and addicts—should be freezing to death outside in prosperous countries like Scotland or Great Britain. The author riles against the rich and the powerful who do little or nothing to help the poor. Furthermore, he walks the talk, providing things like blankets by the van-full to the homeless. This book kicks off at the beginning: in Boggie's childhood. He lived as one of the less athletic members of his athletic, sports-loving family. Despite heavy discipline from his parents, he admits to acting out and often falling short of their expectations for much of his life, eventually culminating in an addiction to heroin. But this is a comeback story! And what would a comeback story be without a down time or two? Boggie experienced many setbacks, and he takes us into the mind of an addict enduring a furious internal struggle with tremendous external and life or death consequences. No, he didn't quite resort to crimes like robbery or carjacking, but he does mention that those temptations existed and entrapped many other addicts that he knew of. He witnessed people he knew resort to crime in order to feed their addictions. Drugs became a huge part of his life, even pulling him away from forming meaningful relationships with people. Despite many women finding him attractive or wanting to be friendly with him, drugs still dominated his thoughts and drew him away from them. The heroin stash at home was more important than the date he could've had that night. Even a boys night out was out of the question if it didn't revolve around getting a fix. Heroin also made him feel dependent on it and feel like he couldn't live without it. Boggie reminds us that the power to overcome an addiction like heroin lies within a person's mind. If you convince yourself that you can't live without something, then you probably won't be able to. If you tell yourself that it might be challenging but that there's a light at the end of the tunnel, then you're more likely to overcome the addiction. Boggie proposes that it helps to have a reason to get over the addiction that is greater than the addiction, and that reason for Boggie was his family. As mentioned before, Boggie had a daughter who he'd unwillingly become estranged from after multiple issues with her mother, Ivy. In a relationship that sounds eerily similar to Johnny Depp & Amber Heard, Ivy tormented Boggie by dangling his heroin over the balcony, using it as leverage against him. They would often struggle and end up wrestling/grappling, but Boggie insists that he never dared strike her or anyone else. His daughter is probably the saddest part of the entire book since it is clear that the author loves, misses, and cares about her, but the chasm between him and her mother is so great that he rarely gets to see her. Deep down inside, you can just tell that Boggie knows that if drugs weren't such a controlling part of his life, then maybe he could've had a better and closer relationship with his daughter. Incredibly, as part of this inspirational comeback story, Boggie does find a bit of a “happy ending” in finding his wife, Stephanie, someone who noticed him during his time working at a grocery store, a time when he was still heavily distracted by his addiction. Perhaps the funnest part of this book involves Boggie's experience in the military. Some of it is hilarious. Boggie joined the army around the age of 30, making him the oldest of the cadets at the time, a fact which wasn't lost on anyone. He was constantly treated like the “grandpa” of the group even by the sergeant, James Rose, who later became a friend. When he would be in public with the other soldiers, people would automatically jump to the conclusion that he was their officer because of his age. In one of the biggest moments of the book (in more ways than one), Boggie severely injures his leg during a training exercise. Now, you'd think this would be a tragic or traumatic moment, and it probably felt that way to Boggie at the time, but in hindsight it is one of the funniest and most entertaining stories that the author has to tell. He describes himself yelling “like a little girl” and is treated like absolute crap by everyone in light of his injury, even by the medic (who insists he stand on his bad leg) and by the other soldiers who look at him as getting off easy. Incredibly, this and a later back injury come back around to become blessings in disguise. He is eventually reunited with Stephanie after many years apart and is medically discharged from the military in the midst of the global War on Terror. While Boggie isn't proud of being medically discharged and missing out on serving in combat alongside his buddies, he relishes the experience of being in the military. He is especially proud of having worn the honorable bearskin hats of the Scots Guard and having guarded Buckingham Palace, where he felt like a pop star with cameras flashing all around, and also Windsor Castle, all after overcoming his addiction to heroin. When it comes to autobiographies, there are two types that often come up: long boring ones and fun short ones, and this falls into the latter camp. This is such a fun little autobiography with a ton of heart. Despite his many struggles, Boggie calls writing this book the most difficult thing he ever did. Come and celebrate this man's incredible accomplishments and check out this book on Amazon!
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Score: 95/100 (9.5 out of 10)
On one hand, it's very difficult to pinpoint what exactly makes David V. Mammina's fiction books so enjoyable; on another hand, it's actually quite simple: Mammina creates interesting characters and great tension-filled action. The stakes in a David Mammina book are always meaningful and/or high, and the characters always have something about them that makes you lean in and want to give them a hug (or punch them in the face). “Torn Asunder” is no different in these regards. “Torn Asunder” takes the reader to the 1300s, following shortly after the last of the Crusades, one of the most dismal and depressing times in human history by our estimation: a time in which people who claimed to follow God's will did reprehensible things to each other including murder, torture, and cannibalism, ultimately for selfish & political rather than religious purposes. Both sides of the spectrum—both those who called themselves Christians and those who called themselves Muslim—were guilty of tremendous violence, cruelty, and acts of depravity in the midst of the Crusades. Thankfully, Mammina's book acknowledges that these events occurred while not depressing us with them. Actually, this book is heavily about different groups of believers—both Christian and Muslim—working together for the greater good, or at least to do the right thing in the midst of great human evil. It is actually a pretty heartwarming tale in that regard. The book follows the last remaining members of the Knights Templar as they seek to continue to do God's will in the eastern Byzantine Empire, namely modern-day Turkey. The socio-political as well as the religious climate is tense, with many of the Muslim Ottoman Turks distrusting the Christian knights and many of the knights wary of them as well. The city of Nicaea has become a refuge. Conflict and skirmishes between the two factions is seen throughout until they are eventually forced to coexist to confront true evil. Hint: demons are real, and it's up to our heroes to face them. So, let's look at the area in which Mammina consistently excels: the characters. There are three main Templar knights: Algard, Touren, and Vashon (often called “Vash” as in “Vash the Stampede”). Algard and Touren are brothers with Algard being the eldest, and Vashon seems to look over the two of them like a father. The three, as well as the Knight's Templar as a whole, have seen better days, or at least more glorious ones. The feeling we get from them is that they're like the samurai or ronin during the Edo period in Japan. These are old warriors who've lost their powerful, prestigious, important place in society in the midst of a cultural/societal shift. They are wanderers, vagabonds. They are essentially mercenaries for hire. It is said they see “their old days in the crackling fire.” Those days are gone. It's with this context in mind that these three old stooges and their amazing Turkish guide, Kursat, are hired on a fateful mission: an escort mission. But it's not just any escort mission. It's to escort a man's mysterious daughter with a price on her head, wanted by the Turks as part of a figurative (and somewhat literal) witch hunt. This mysterious girl's name is Parisa, and she is probably extremely hot. She is described as having olive skin and striking green eyes, likely similar to Sharbat Gula, the Afghan girl from the famous 1985 National Geographic cover, although Parisa—we're pretty sure—is supposed to be of marriageable age (please be 18 so this doesn't become weird). She's often called a "woman," so there's that. She probably has fiery red hair too just like all of the author's hot female protagonists. Parisa never ceases to charm the reader as well as the other protagonists. She speaks multiple languages including French, which she uses to communicate and connect with the knights, and sings beautifully. She sings so beautifully, in fact, that she even lifts the spirits of Gerard, one of the more pessimistic and disgruntled of all the heroic characters. Parisa feels a deep sense of guilt over the number of people who are suffering or have died to get or protect her, even crying over it. She doesn't want to be a hindrance or a burden to everyone. Parisa also says her prayers, takes her vitamins, brother, and probably does 100 push-ups and sit-ups every day. She comes complete with a prayer mat, prayer beads, probably a prayer shoal, prayer rocks, prayer flowers, prayer journal, and everything with the word "prayer" attached to it. She is essentially Aerith from FFVII with a hint of Amara from Supernatural in her. We're told that she's like an angel, but also told that she's probably the most dangerous person in the book--even scaring the crap out of some full-grown wolves. And this isn't even her final form! She fills the role of the mysterious, charming, likely-ill-fated damsel perfectly. Each of the protagonists seems to take a liking to her, but not in a creepy way. They seem to have adopted her as one of their own, almost like a daughter or little sister, and they're protective of her. This is very interesting because of the somewhat dire situation that the protagonists are in. Parisa, and also Kursat, believe differently from them. They are “the others”--members of the people the Crusaders fought hundreds of years against. Furthermore, they really could ditch or turn in Parisa at any time for the money. It would also save them from a lot of this fighting and the looming threat of death or harm. If they were terrible enough people, they probably would. But they don't. They don't because it would be wrong. It would be selfish and evil. Parisa, in the hands of the enemy, would not just face a grim future of possibly being forced to marry or outright violated, she might even be brutalized or killed. Our heroes, being true heroes, won't let that happen. They refuse to let that happen. And that goes along with what we said in earlier reviews of Mammina's work: he understands that people really like to help and save people, even at the expense of or risk to themselves. There's a white knight—a knight in shining armor—a Templar knight in all of us. Another character who really shines is Kursat, the Turkish guide who seems to take the reins of the journey a lot of the time. First of all, how cool is that name? Kursat sounds like “Cursed.” Kursat serves to give the audience a different perspective of “the other.” Despite being a Muslim and a Turk, he's not a villain. In fact, he's one of the more level-headed and helpful characters. He really pulls his weight in this story. Touren tells Algard with shame that he long saw Kursat as “a Turk, an infidel within our ranks.” Kursat opens Touren's eyes and makes him a better person. This is amazing considering how xenophobic Touren is. Also amazing among the characters are the Risen Lion or Order of the Lion, a group of skilled mercenaries hired to capture Parisa. The Risen Lions, unlike the Detroit Lions, are a formidable force and more than a match for the knights. Furthermore, they're a great foil for the protagonist group, also employing both Christians and Muslims but choosing to go about their work with far less scruples. This cast of characters may not be as enthralling as those found in “The Angels of Resistance”—the best fiction book we reviewed this winter—or “Redeem the Knight” (among the best fantasy series we've read this year) or “Of Freedom, Fear and Fantasy” (among the best short-story collection from this spring), but they are interesting nonetheless. It would be a lot to ask for an author to strike gold time and time again, but this author consistently does it. You could almost consider this cast of characters an ensemble cast. It's actually a little difficult narrowing it down to a main protagonist. Writing-wise, this is also one of Mammina's more impressive works. Just read Gerard express how he feels about God in his “pain and love” speech after all they've suffered through. Just read what Touren says about Kursat. There's also such great humor and charm in this book. First of all, there's a Black Knight in here, and we couldn't keep a straight face every time he was mentioned. The words “it's just a flesh wound” were uttered many times on our end. Touren, the grumpy older guy, is always swearing (including the one F-bomb in this book) and even insults Kursat for being even older than he is. Gerard is semi-obsessed with his donkey. People are always reminding Algard that he's late like he's Snake from Metal Gear Solid. The author introduces the plot device of the rose "of Jericho" and says that a character had awoken from a deep sleep. But were they all weak and living in the agony of defeat? The banter, the back-and-forth, and the dialogue between the characters is phenomenal. All in all, this is a solid book. Check it out on Amazon! Score: 94/100 (9.4 out of 10)
This puzzle book is the perfect companion piece to “Passamaquoddy Legends” as it helps readers of all ages to review the fascinating and intricate details of these incredible Native American legends. It's a welcomed treat since these legends were very fun to read, but the problem remained that they were sometimes challenging to read because of the unique Passamaquoddy terminology used throughout. This workbook seeks to rectify that by making learning these new terms and complex stories via fun puzzles of various kinds. You can tell that author Michael Cook deeply cares about the material and the subject matter. He could have simply made a few coloring pages or a few puzzles, but he went all out. There are dozens upon dozens of different puzzles to go through, and all of them are interesting in their own ways. For one, pretty much all of them cover one of these fascinating legends or an aspect of them. They do this in a way that helps the reader learn and remember what they read. Reviewing and learning actively are always useful tools in acquiring new information. For example, in the course of doing these puzzles, we realized that even stories we thought we were the most familiar with, like “Glooskap is Making Arrows,” Glooskap is not alone in making these arrows for the Great Battle ahead. Sogma is also involved in making arrows, and they do this constantly. Also, words that we kept seeing but that we didn't know the meaning to are clarified, like wigwam (a dwelling or home). We were also impressed by how much we'd learned and remembered from the parent text. For example, we knew what “Wabanaki” was (the Children of Light) and also “Iglesmani” (the white man). There are also some fun and cool, albeit slightly advanced, connect-the-dot games. Your child could presumably do this with perhaps some supervision, but like most of these, they're mainly for adults or young adults. These create amazing figures like snakes, bears, and turtles. A lot of thought and effort clearly went into this. Is it still a lot to learn and sometimes a bit overly difficult? Maybe. For example, some of the answers are actually very specific, and you'd have to really do a “CTRL + F” search of the parent text to find the correct answer (unless you're just going to guess or try to cheap by looking at the back of the book). Where's the fun in cheating? But even guessing can be difficult if you don't have the Passamaquoddy terminology down. It's still a foreign language to most of us. Maybe we're just not Sudoku kind of people, but the number block sections were parts we just decided to skip over after a few tries. They just got a bit much. That's not to say that you can't find some joy in solving them though. Things like crosswords and word searches, now, anyone can do, and we definitely enjoyed the process. So, in conclusion, we're giving this book our highest rating yet for a workbook, albeit this is one of the few we've judged, and the others were in entirely different genres. This “Passamaquoddy Collection”--as you will—holds a very unique and special place in our hearts. There's just nothing like it. We read a collection of poems about the Aboriginal people of Australia, but that was a collection of poems aimed at activism, not a collection of legends aimed at entertaining while educating. So, we're giving it a 9.4—an exceptionally good score shared by books near the very top of children's books and eloquently-written fiction books. It also shares the same score as the parent text. That seems like a fair score. Michael Cook clearly cares about all this. Apparently, he grew up next to a Passamaquoddy reservation in Maine, becoming personally acquainted with their people and culture. He is pursuing his doctorate at Liberty University, and we're confident he'll get it with his work ethic and intellect. Check out this book and its parent text on Amazon! Score: 96/100 (9.6 out of 10)
Well, here is our first heavy-hitter (9.6-rating) of the season! Ralph L. Bayrer has probably become one of our favorite non-fiction authors. His previous book, “Eternal Vigilance,” tied for first-place in all of non-fiction books this past winter. Bayrer seems to be a staunch realist with ideas that are fundamental to the American way of life, emphasizing free enterprise, lower taxes, less government regulation, and an acknowledgment of human nature. These are things that, strangely, are becoming less popular today as common sense becomes less and less common. These are systems that are eroding by the minute, it seems. Bayrer gently grasps the reader by the lapels and reminds them that there's a reason why the United States of America, for all its flaws, is the most prosperous and wealthy nation that has ever existed on this earth. Also, he presents the warning that this may all change for the worse if America continues to surrender to the whims of idealism and seeks to become more like the rest of the world than being true to itself. So, where do we begin with this great book? For one, the writing is excellent. Bayrer's previous book was a runner-up for “Best Writing” this past winter, and this book is no different. Even with a focus on facts, the writing is no less eloquent. And speaking of facts, the author presents incredible and interesting information ranging the full span of human existence. We get to learn about how societies evolved from the stone age to the present, adapting to various changes including weather, geography, political/diplomatic relations, the advent of socio-political & economic ideologies like communism, warfare, resource availability, etc. We also get to learn a bit of the history of different civilizations including the Indus Valley people, the Chinese, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Arabs, the sub-Saharan Africans, the British, and, of course, the Americans. Something that stands out in all of these examples is that you can see that the more despotic, tyrannical, and controlling a government become, the closer it is to collapse. The freer a people are (short of anarchy), the more prosperous a nation, kingdom, or empire usually is. You can look at the unhappiest and poorest countries on earth and see the ill effects that a tyrannical government and socialism/communism have had. Now, granted, is it possible that at least some of this difficulty is the result of poor relations with the more affluent western nations leading to harsher sanctions and poorer trade? Yes. But that supports rather than detracts from the point. North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, and Venezuela are listed as nations that continue to struggle because they had held on to broken or antiquated systems, some of which have never been proven work to begin with. Something unique about this book is that it also chooses to look at the cultural aspects of these societies, most notably their religions. This might be where the book gets the most iffy for some readers, but it's worth considering. There are certain cultures and religions that frown upon accumulating wealth as a major aspect of one's life. For example, Buddhism proposes that materialism is detrimental as a form of attachment. In that belief system, attachment leads to suffering. For a long time in some societies that embraced Buddhism, like China and Japan, the merchant class was among the lower classes. To many Christians, money is a kind of evil or a necessary evil as they are warned that one can't serve both money and God, and there are constant warnings in the Bible about wealth being corruptible. At the same time, Christians and Buddhists alike are encouraged to not be sedentary and to work for a living, whether to produce food or make the money to purchase the food. Christians (and also Muslims, as also covered in this book) are heavily encouraged to donate to charity and to tithe their earnings. So, money can't be all bad even from a religious perspective. It is interesting to read this slight critique of religion from Bayrer, who seems to have a more Conservative or Republican leaning, as many in those camps tend to be among the more religious in society. That's not to say that Bayrer is incorrect in his assertions, just that it's interesting to note. There is also a somewhat odd overview of evolution. No, not the evolution of culture or economics but actual evolution—the Darwin, survival-of-the-fittest kind. But, again, it's not there just for the sake of being there, it's there to serve a point: that humanity changes and adapts to circumstances, having a sort of “life-cycle.” The key to all that is, are we as a society going to try to stay in the life-cycle of thriving or the life-cycle of dying? All in all, this is a very educational and worthwhile read by an incredible author. Check it out! Score: 90/100 (9.0 out of 10)
“Lies That Blind” by E.S. Alexander is a drama-filled work of historical fiction that follows Jim (James) Lloyd, a young hopeful employee of the East India Trading Company, who becomes the voyage mate of the legendary Captain Francis Light. Through Jim, we see Francis Light and the (often unscrupulous) dealings of the British and the Dutch in Malaysia—the center of trade between India and China that had been ruled by sultans with severe legalistic leanings. We often hear about the severe corporal and capital punishments instituted by the regime at the time including being drawn and quartered or trampled by elephants, amputations, and impaling. At the same time, while we are told these things, the Europeans are not shown in an idealized light, but rather in a very gray one. We are constantly prompted to consider Francis Light as a hero or a villain. Something else that's constantly in the background of this story is Britain's loss to the American colonies in the American Revolution and constant mention of a very familiar name: Lord Charles Cornwallis, who (at the time the book takes place) is known as the man who lost the American colonies despite his other successes including as Governor-General of India. This is, for all intents and purposes, a period piece. Fort Cornwallis, which bears the Governor-General's name, serves as a major location in the book, centered on “George Town” (named after King George), the British capital in Penang, Malaysia. You get an idea of how exploitative the British, but more notably the Dutch, are to the natives. They often come in and colonize a place, taking slaves and even burning old crops to force them to grow new ones in order to survive. The Europeans seem to want to command and control by any means necessary. During the course of this book, the main protagonist, Jim, goes on an adventurous quest of self-discovery, developing relationships with Martinha and William, the latter of whom he forms a father-son-like bond with. We feel like we've read this book six times, but in truth we actually just kept starting and stopping. We kept stopping around 150 pages in, at which point we'd already forgotten what happened and were lost. We've managed to finish it once each. This book seems to promise some swashbuckling pirate adventure filled with thrilling 18th-century duels and battles—both of the ground and naval varieties—but it's really nothing like that. It is actually incredibly, heavily political. And, by political we don't mean political ranting (at least) or trying to compare old white dictators to the man whose name begins with “T” and end in “Rump” (at least), but it's more like the Star Wars prequels: the Trade Federation has established its blockade on Naboo and the negotiations were short. Every time we tried to read this book, we had this hope that something cool, exciting, or interesting was going to happen. The ship they were sailing on was going to sink. Pirates were going to board. The French or the Dutch would cannonade them. One of the MCs was going to be captured by the sultan, held for ransom, and Jim and a ragtag group of miscreants was going to have to break them out. Well, in all fairness, one somewhat beloved character does face the possibility of harsh punishment, but that is quickly gleamed over. This book simply isn't written like that. Yes, there are some fights and exciting things near the end of this, but the author made us wait so incredibly long to get to those parts (including the aforementioned beloved character being in peril) that we'd lost interest by that point. Most of this book is dialogue and drama. We've just read a book by David Mammina titled “Of Freedom, Fear and Fantasy” that handles seafaring and slavery (and relationships with slaves) arguably better, or at least in a more exciting way. Maybe we're just suckers for melodrama, but this book just kept prompting the question: who or what are we supposed to be rooting for? The Europeans are exploitative, slave-owning jerks and the sultan and his regime are depraved authoritarians. Are we supposed to be cheering for Jim, our blank-slate of a main character? The hype for this book was heavily around Francis Light, his deceit is the inspiration of for the title, but Francis Light is not really the focus of the book. So, what do we have? We have “Great Gatsby” if it were focused on Nick and not Gatsby. This is Jim's story, it just so happens to have Francis Light in it. But, ok, Jim might be a little generic as far as protagonists go, but he is still a good man (at least). He still cares about and shows concern for people like William. He doesn't always approve of things like slavery and severe punishments. He's committed to his course, and he is dedicated to seeing it through. We almost always see things from Jim's limited perspective, although his perspective weirdly veers into a semi-omniscient perspective. We'd joked that it almost sounds like he's a time traveler. He (and others in the book) don't talk like they're in the 18th century. They talk like they're from Palo Alta, California. But going back to the time-traveler thing, Jim legitimately wants to ask the question, “Are we there yet?” and states that it's the kind of question a child asks from the back seat on a long journey. He uses the word “coach” instead of car, but you get the point. It's almost like it's not 1780-something at all... But in fairness, the time and subject matter are probably difficult enough for most modern audiences to grab onto without archaic forms of English being thrown in, complicating what is already very complicated. This book covers the exact same time-period and is very similar (genre-wise) to “Wild Colts Make the Best Horses” by Mary Rae Mauch—arguably the best book we read this year or at least very close. That book was over 900 pages long! NINE-HUNDRED PAGES! And that book felt shorter than this 270-page novel. Imagine that. This book is denser than the center of a neutron star. Not only do you need to be aware of what was going on with the British Empire at the time, you also need to be aware of the Qing Dynasty in China, the Mughal Empire in South Asia (mostly India), the colonial Dutch, and the sultanate in Malaysia. The Dutch are portrayed in such a despicable light in this. The Dutch come in after the British leave an area undefended, then burn down all the nutmeg trees to send a message to the British and the locals that they were now in control of the spice trade. While reading things like this, we just couldn't help but think of the quote by Nigel Powers in “Austin Powers: Gold Member”: “There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.” That kind of humor usually gets us through plodding, meandering books like this. We're probably losing our minds and exaggerating a bit, but that's what this book did to us: it made our heads spin. It was like being in a fight with Mike Tyson in his prime after just getting into boxing two months ago. It's a lot to take in all at once. It probably makes perfect sense to the author though. They're the Evander Holyfield in this situation. They've been there and done that. Unfortunately, as neophytes, it's overwhelming. But here's the thing, this book is A LOT, but it's also A LOT TO LOVE. You might absolutely end up loving it. There is a sense of adventure and exploration. You are learning as you go along! And this book really picks up about 220 pages in. You finally get some of that high-stakes action that you were probably hoping for. Very briefly, something that was very interesting was considering the amount of time it took correspondence (letters) to get from one place to another back then. In other words, you could be writing a letter telling your grandma that you got a new job, but it might not get to her for 5-12 months or even longer, if it even gets to her at all. Could you imagine that? In modern times, we have e-mail and smartphones. We complain when USPS or FedEx is a day late, and here these poor 18th century saps were spilling their hearts onto paper hoping that the ship carrying these parcels wouldn't get blown out of the water by a pirate ship or hit a reef. Check this book out if you're into historical fiction related to colonial times. |
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