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Ghost Sea: A Novel (2007)

Ghost Sea: A Novel (2007)

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ISBN
0920256511 (ISBN13: 9780920256510)
Language
English
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albatross

About book Ghost Sea: A Novel (2007)

Wasn't hooked until you start finding out people's real identities. I liked the style of writing, although I had to learn to skim over sailing terms because there was NO WAY I was going to figure them all out. Glad there is a northern Northwest Coast historical fiction out there. Although it relies on the stereotypes of the West and of the NWC's peoples, it does so responsibly.Mate uses little snipits of anthropologists's writings to inform on the Kwakiutl (Boas), and, even better, to make an ass out of the social evolutionists and Indian agents(Halliday).

I am not finishing this book. It's a romance novel/soap opera cloaked in the mythology of the Kwakiutl Indians plus master class sailing lessons,and relies full of stereotypes. I would rather read history about the Indians.

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I enjoyed this book because it pulled me into a world I didn’t know much about and also had a few twists and turns I didn’t expect. It’s the first book I read where the characters all die and the reader continues to follow them in their afterlife in the end. That was very provocative. But, the descriptions were tedious at times and confusing. The clunky descriptions got in the way of the more poetic insights found throughout the book. And I found myself wondering why the tribe would go to such l
—Laura Elliott

This is my first book from Goodreads. I liked what I read about the book so I did want to read it. The trouble is that it wasn't exactly what it said it was to be. The love affair started off nice but I think it was more of just that an affair or crush, I don't think it was really love. The love part was really played down in my opinion. In the beginning of the book it talked about Dugger and his earlier years of working and learning about the sea. This part of the book was good and you really g
—Marilyn

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