The Cruise of the Esmeralda
Harry Collingwood
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After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is said to have buried a vast fortune in gold and jewels somewhere in the Eastern Seas. The catch: all directions are encrypted. Nevertheless, Captain Saint Leger decides to take a chance and sails east. A journey full of adventure begins, including pirates, storms and mutiny... (Summary by Carolin) (10 hr 29 min)
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Hate to give 4 stars
Michele Walker
I am so happy to have discovered the author, Harry Collingwood. All of his books that I've listened to here have kept my attention and have been very entertaining. Four stars rather than five because of (& I'm sorry to point a finger) Christopher, the reader of the first few chapters. It's like he's doing a dramatic, sarcastic imitation of William Shatner's (Captain Kirk) method of speaking in short spurts of 1-3 words with lots of unnecessary pauses. I just wanted to tell him to relax, calm down, & don't be so dramatic!
Bravo from Borneo
Lord Jim
I am so pleased to have come across this author and look forward to more of his work. This book is a delightful tale of a sea voyage and the perils experienced by the captain and his crew and passengers. I particularly appreciated the detail provided in sailing the nimble vessel. There are many challenges and events so very well created and described and the characters are well formed. I must pay tribute to the narrators who each did a tremendous job. I really liked this book.
wonderful
Tally Go
great story with good verbosity and economy balanced by the author. the readers are varied and are all fine
Poorly narrated.
Lloyd Boone
Some of the narrators are not at all pleasing to listen to...they totally spoil the work.
A great read
A LibriVox Listener
Keep the sea adventure tales coming, love them! super job! Thanks readers!
very good great story
A LibriVox Listener
very good great story lots of progressing story lines.
Matthew M McGuire
great high seas adventure good ones like this spoil me for future novels
Jackie
Quite ennoyed it. I jave liked all of his wroting. Good adventure.