Status
Available
Call number
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Publication
Melbourne : Herald-Sun Readers Book Club, 1954.
Description
Om den hollandske slæbebådstrafik i begyndelsen af 1900-tallet.
User reviews
LibraryThing member thorold
Splendid seafaring yarn, no pretensions to being great literature, but just the right mixture of adventure and sentiment, with a little touch of picaresque humour here and there. You can easily see how this epic celebration of Dutch stubbornness and seamanship — with its early-20th-century
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tug-skippers as analogues for 17th century Dutch rovers — became a cult classic in the dark days of the German occupation. Probably the most surprising thing, given the vast amount of experience that seems to be packed into the story, is that de Hartog was only 26 when it came out. It may not be Kipling or Joseph Conrad, but it has a good deal more to offer in range of themes and depth of characterisation than some of the specialist seafaring novelists of the time (Monsarrat and Forester, for instance). Show Less
Media reviews
NIW
‘[Dit boek] is nog steeds zeer leesbaar en in feite actueler dan ooit.’
Leidsch Dagblad
‘Hollands glorie staat voor nostalgie, stoere zeebonken in barre tijden en voor vele avonden leesplezier. Nog steeds.’
Call number
A DEH