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...authenticity over his scenes. In The Black Swan and The Sea Hawk, when a sailing ship fires off a broadside, Sabatini draws on his vast vocabulary of sailor latin to inform the reader that a battery of sakers on the gun deck of a galleass is bombarding a galliot with langrel that has collapsed its topgallants and smashed a few slush lamps. He is just as sure-footed ashore. When Sabatini finishes describing Captain Blood's hangout, the pirate fortress at Tortuga, any attentive reader could build a scale model in his basement, right down to the little green...
...Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India's Rai Dahaden Agarwal and his wife Mme Kapoorsundri Agarwal...
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