The Fox and the Faith

Rating:
Summary: wonderful wish he'd write more
Review: A fan of his westerns I also love sea stories. The humor in mr Parkinsons books is great from the shock the gunnery officer Dalton has to find a woman who can shoot big guns to great plot twists that the book takes. I feel that it is better writting than kent forister and especaly todays most popular sea author ( of example the yellow admeral) I could never read more than 10 pages till I was bored and quit. With mr Parkinson I find I can hardly put a book down to sleep and that rereading is almost as good as the first time. I fear giving more detail because the suprizes are such a joy, but the apearence of the sailmaker nearly sprained a rib from laughting

Rating:
Summary: wonderful wish he'd write more
Review: A fan of his westerns I also love sea stories. The humor in mr Parkinsons books is great from the shock the gunnery officer Dalton has to find a woman who can shoot big guns to great plot twists that the book takes. I feel that it is better writting than kent forister and especaly todays most popular sea author ( of example the yellow admeral) I could never read more than 10 pages till I was bored and quit. With mr Parkinson I find I can hardly put a book down to sleep and that rereading is almost as good as the first time. I fear giving more detail because the suprizes are such a joy, but the apearence of the sailmaker nearly sprained a rib from laughting

Rating:
Summary: Cat and Mouse Naval Fun
Review: Dan Parlinson has created a novel that is quick and easy to read and as other reviewers have mentioned, can be read in a day.

Based in the late 1700s independence era Royal Navy we are introduced to a young Patric Dalton who must sail a small schooner against the new US naval froces and other advesaries. With a motley crew and a ship that is being slowly battered into twigs, he soon finds a simple solution to his problems. Finding a new Hull.

Rating:
Summary: Humerous and Heroic
Review: Outstanding! After picking up "The Fox and The Faith" as an impulse one boring afternoon I refused to set it down again until I finished the last page. (Despite my families objections about dinner - let them order pizza) As a lover of authentically written historical adventures Parkinson's style of humor, quiet romance and intelligent high sea strategy hit exactly the right note. I found myself starting it again with the novel in one hand, (a pizza slice dangling from my lips) and a sailing dictionary in the other. Parkinson helped turn even a seasick-prone landlocked Wisconsinite into a sailing master, at least in my imagionation. Any fans of Daphne Du Maurier's "Frenchman's Creek"? "The Fox and the Faith" should be your next sailing adventure.

Rating:
Summary: Humerous and Heroic
Review: Outstanding! After picking up "The Fox and The Faith" as an impulse one boring afternoon I refused to set it down again until I finished the last page. (Despite my families objections about dinner - let them order pizza) As a lover of authentically written historical adventures Parkinson's style of humor, quiet romance and intelligent high sea strategy hit exactly the right note. I found myself starting it again with the novel in one hand, (a pizza slice dangling from my lips) and a sailing dictionary in the other. Parkinson helped turn even a seasick-prone landlocked Wisconsinite into a sailing master, at least in my imagionation. Any fans of Daphne Du Maurier's "Frenchman's Creek"? "The Fox and the Faith" should be your next sailing adventure.