Word: sea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First and only Captain of the Ambrose is squint-eyed Gustav A. Lange, who has been at sea from cabin boy to master, for 43 years. Said he in German-American gutturals last week: "Vell, it brings home a mile closer to these inbound ships now ve are moved...
...South Sea Rose (Fox). As a French girl brought up in the South Seas and taken to New England by a skipper who marries her for her money, Lenore Ulric talks the same baby gutturals she used a couple of weeks ago in Frozen Justice, but the meaning of her husky drawling voice does not depend on words and is the same in any language. The story is an aimless, overkeyed triangle. Best shot: a simple-minded jazzbo having a fit when checked in his efforts to get near the South Sea Rose...
Without descending to a technicality which would tax the understanding of more modern seafarers, Stanford nevertheless brings to the pages of his novel a real tang of the sea. His straightforward style, carries forward a tale spread over several years, without omitting anything but unessentials. Compactly, tersely worded, with excellent selection of detail, "Invitation to Danger" has not a single wasted chapter or paragraph...
There is a two-fold romance--that of the sea and that of Dan Bover and Ann Duane, the slim and lovely toast of New York. Bover's unquenchable love of the sea, never satisfied except when he strides the quarterdeck of his ship, and his tortuous pursuit of an elusive but understanding Ann, provide the twin plots underlying the whole structure of the novel...
Into "Invitation to Danger", too, enters that mysticism which never seems lacking in the best books of the sea. The main theme of "The Ancient Mariner", strong in "Moby Dick", is also as evident in every situation of Stanford's latest...