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Not what I expected

Written by Anonymous on July 31st, 2007

• Book Rating: 3/5

I expected a book about how the four sailors survived their multi-year "captivity." I would have liked the history or even historical fiction. Rather than conveying what he knew, or creating historical fiction around that, the author spent huge amounts of time describing finding snippets of papers, reports and books in the Harvard Library. He also told us of hiring others to research his information needs, also at the Harvard library, and Russian libraries and archives, as well. Further, he took the time to include information about THOSE search assistants. He told us of his consultations with experts in various fields, and their views on the issues. He tells the reader of his trip to the island, to look for clues and confirm hunches. What the reader/listener ends up with is a readable portrait of how he searched for historical information in a library, and his educated guess about what probably happened. I guess this is a book about a library adventure.