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Great storytelling by Page as we gradually learn about the passengers and their lives before the voyage – or maybe we just think we do. Lovely story with a mild and hopeful twist at the end.

The tone was a bit more Gothic than I would have liked but that was in keeping with the time period of the setting. Wasn’t too sure what to expect when I purchased this book but was intrigued by character interactions and historical aspects. A bit slow and trite. Some social commentary on hunting and human Interesting book. Some social commentary on hunting and human impact on environmental issues, but in a subtle way. Storyline was intriguing and characters were well-rounded.

See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. Savage impact. This is an overwhelming experience. You are part of this novel through the narrator and the twists and turns take you along with increasing despair and horror.

It is relentless in its foreboding and atmosphere. It is a brilliantly written book – probably the best modern book I have ever read, other than Jeremy Page’s first book Salt. I took it very slowly, reading every word of the evocative memory sections about East Anglia, so I could learn the way the words flowed and worked.

Other sections that were visually disturbing I had to rush through whilst recognizing their power and intensity. It is unmissable. An absolute immersing experience in the world being created that takes you along completely. It has stayed with me for days afterwards and the characters are haunting, they are so vividly drawn.

Report abuse. The Collector of Lost Things by Jeremy Page is loaded with so much mystery, peril and suspense that it feels like a gothic adventure and, unlike some historical novels, gives the impression it was written in its time.

The story, set in , comes in waves. It sounded remote and tremendous. A word filled with sharp edges. I imagined ice growing across the sea, inching towards the ship, how the walls of my cabin would become cold to touch. Having said this, I was swept along by many wonderful descriptions which are so vivid and laced with meaning.

I thought, peculiarly, of candles pushed into a cake. However, it feels natural and paced because it is done as they board or meet. You pull if you are in need of me” Read the full Literary Lightbox review at www. A bit of an old fashioned novel, which builds and gets better and better. Set in , it tells the tale of a young naturalist setting out by ship to the Arctic to save the Great Auk.

His fellow travellers are a fascinating bunch, and there is no shortage of ‘wow- didn’t see that coming’ moments. As ever with Jeremy Page, he is at his best when studying the mind and its frailties. And it seemed the only possible conclusion that it had been his drink, with the strange but not unpleasant odour, that had conjured up the vision.

Bletchley was uninterested in having food. In fact, I had rarely seen him eat during the previous few days. I was glad not to have to deal with him. Beyond him, I saw the companionway door swinging eerily on its hinges. I was again haunted by a presence of something I could not explain. The British saw themselves as masters of the universe and had dozens of exotic animal purveyors in London and would stuff any animal, domestic or foreign, for middle and upper class homes.

What is lovely about the novel is the descriptions of life at sea and in the ice. There is where the author triumphs and not in the anachronistic views of the two doomed passengers. Jun 12, Heidi The Reader rated it it was ok Shelves: historical-fiction , fiction. The audiobook delivered a heavy-handed treatment of man vs.

Not for the faint of heart or stomach. The story beyond these stomach churning scenes was nothing to write home about. I was very disappointed. In The Pioneers , Chapter 3 depicts settlers shooting a cloud of pigeons so vast that it nearly blocks out the sky. They fire repeatedly into the flock, killing far beyond what they’ll need or consume. The mindless slaughter is categorized as sport. The hero of the story, Natty Bumppo, expresses disgust at the behavior. The reader understands the author’s point and the story moves on.

In this book, not only is there an homage to the pigeon scene, but the reader has to endure the repeated abuse of whales, walruses walrii? I felt like the point wasn’t just driven home- it smashed me in the face. My stomach was so turned by the slaughter that I couldn’t enjoy the book anymore. It was a shame because the prose used to describe the arctic scenery was some of the most expressive and beautiful that I have ever read.

It puts you there, but then it drowns you in seas of blood. If you enjoyed this book, you should read James Fenimore Cooper. The topic is the same, but the treatment in Cooper’s novels is far superior.

View 2 comments. Mar 08, Anne rated it did not like it Shelves: started-didnt-finish. I simply cannot finish this book. The violence to animals is bad enough to make me want to stop reading it, but the absolute lack of redeeming qualities in any of the characters sealed it.

View 1 comment. Oct 09, Rebecca rated it liked it Shelves: read-via-edelweiss , birds , polar-regions , maritime-adventure , reviewed-bookkaholic , victorian-pastiche. His patrons are a group of London collectors with money riding on whether this penguin-like bird is actually gone without trace.

Curiously, Saxby is convinced that he has known Clara before, nearly a decade ago — except then she was known as Celeste Cottesloe, daughter of a Norfolk country squire whose bird egg collection he was busily repairing and cataloguing. Celeste seemed to be a prisoner in her room; she would whisper out to Eliot from the keyhole, begging him to help her escape — which he did, but to disastrous effect. Is Clara actually Celeste? Saxby seems certain, but when he recounts the tale for Clara she receives it as just that: an interesting story, but one that has no bearing on her personal life.

The idea that Saxby might be delusional, or at least emotionally disturbed, makes him a deliciously unreliable narrator. En route to the distant rocks where the great auk was last seen, the crew stops at many points for what seems like arbitrary and gratuitous hunting.

They harpoon a mother and baby whale for fun, behead a walrus just to keep its tusks, and club dozens of seals. It is the weight of their souls that has caused us all to suffer. At one point during a landing, Saxby leaves the others behind and walks out onto an ice sheet, where he soon gets lost. Even though I happened to be reading this book while riding through Tuscan wine country, I still felt the sense of vastness and isolation keenly; I even fancied I could feel the searing cold.

It is this — it is frozen. Mar 05, Barbara Elsborg added it. What a struggle this book was. The writing was very good. Some fantastic descriptions but that was part of the problem.

The detail on the destruction of seals, whales etc was so heartrending it made me not want to read on. I know it happened. I think it still does to some extent. I’m not hiding my head under a blanket but it’s not a subject of choice for me to want to read about. And yet, the writing as I said was very good.

There was a tenseness in the style, a claustrophobic feeling that match What a struggle this book was. There was a tenseness in the style, a claustrophobic feeling that matched life on the ship. I really did believe I was there with them. Not a pleasant place. The storyline – such as it was – did tie the thing together but the characters were grim and unattractive, even the narrator. He was so passive – well until he wasn’t but even that action was ineffective. It was a slow read and while I admire the style of writing, it was subject matter that I found it difficult to cope with.

Nov 28, Horror Bookworm Reviews rated it really liked it. Saxby has been hired by influential acquaintances to venture out on a merchant ship that makes routine trips to the Arctic to deliver supplies and trade with Esquimaux groups. The purpose for Mr. Saxbys participation is to collect eggs and natural artifacts from a rare and extinct bird. He finds himself isolated on the craft with men driven by profit only. The journey quickly turns horrific as the crew begin their obsessed greedy actions of slaughter upon seals, walruses, and whales for their valuable animal parts.

The expedition becomes one of great imbalance by filling the ships hull with skins, feathers, and bones against the belief all animals have a soul and are connected by a continuation of life that man has little understanding of.

A struggle between guarding the legacy of the scarce bird species and selfishness of the Captain to capitalize on the rarity of the breed escalates into a deadly feud that will surely end in tragedy. This story is written with a heavy hearted important message. The difficult task of protecting natural wildlife and their habitat is a constant underlying idea that is told brilliantly through characterization that is guaranteed to move the heart and emotions of the reader.

The shroud of doom that follows the vessel from island to island destroys everything Mother Nature has built with one objective, wealth. Mankind’s failure to be anything other than a beast of greed and its desire for possessions results in destruction and heartlessness that will be repeated time and time again across decades upon all creatures. Having the courage to stand and make the effort to fight will save the Arctic along with its habitat before its too late.

The significance and commentary to this tale is that perhaps one day man will save the Arctic and all of its extraordinary life before further nature is undone. This was a really hard book to get through. The book is very well written, but the subject was hard to read. The summary mentions a hunting ship, so one might expect some killing, but not to this extent. It was very violent, very graphic, and very common throughout the book.

I would not be surprised if this is how things were back then, but it was very, very hard to read. The main This was a really hard book to get through. This book is not for the animal lovers or the squeamish. As for the story, the first half was brutal. I wanted to put it down several times, but I kept thinking it might get better. In fact, it did. The hunting ship heads out to do their hunting and on the way back, they stop at the island of the last known sighting of the great auk.

Eliot was hired to search the island for remains of the extinct bird, including bones, eggshells, feathers, or refuse. What he finds is quite interesting.

There is still some senseless, brutal slaughtering of animals, but much less than in the first half of the book. At least the ending leaves the reader somewhat hopeful.

 
 

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Sailing towards the arctic, we get to know the other people aboard. The captain is crude and diabolical, the officers, venal and insane, the crew, coarse and dirty. The other passengers include a woman, which seems highly unlikely knowing the strict code of conduct for women in Victorian times.

This voyage of the damned contin Out narrator is a naturalist who seeks the last of the Great Auks who may or may not survive on an island in the arctic which is why he becomes a passenger on the Amethyst. This voyage of the damned continues apace. The naturalist and the woman become fast friends as they are united by their abhorrence of the violence and cruelty of the other men who seem to grotesquely kill all the animals they encounter just for fun. What the author does is put a modern sensibility into a Victorian setting.

The concept of extinction was known at the time, but was hardly seen with any alarm. The British saw themselves as masters of the universe and had dozens of exotic animal purveyors in London and would stuff any animal, domestic or foreign, for middle and upper class homes.

What is lovely about the novel is the descriptions of life at sea and in the ice. There is where the author triumphs and not in the anachronistic views of the two doomed passengers. Jun 12, Heidi The Reader rated it it was ok Shelves: historical-fiction , fiction. The audiobook delivered a heavy-handed treatment of man vs. Not for the faint of heart or stomach.

The story beyond these stomach churning scenes was nothing to write home about. I was very disappointed. In The Pioneers , Chapter 3 depicts settlers shooting a cloud of pigeons so vast that it nearly blocks out the sky.

They fire repeatedly into the flock, killing far beyond what they’ll need or consume. The mindless slaughter is categorized as sport. The hero of the story, Natty Bumppo, expresses disgust at the behavior. The reader understands the author’s point and the story moves on. In this book, not only is there an homage to the pigeon scene, but the reader has to endure the repeated abuse of whales, walruses walrii?

I felt like the point wasn’t just driven home- it smashed me in the face. My stomach was so turned by the slaughter that I couldn’t enjoy the book anymore. It was a shame because the prose used to describe the arctic scenery was some of the most expressive and beautiful that I have ever read.

It puts you there, but then it drowns you in seas of blood. If you enjoyed this book, you should read James Fenimore Cooper. The topic is the same, but the treatment in Cooper’s novels is far superior. View 2 comments.

Mar 08, Anne rated it did not like it Shelves: started-didnt-finish. I simply cannot finish this book. The violence to animals is bad enough to make me want to stop reading it, but the absolute lack of redeeming qualities in any of the characters sealed it.

View 1 comment. Oct 09, Rebecca rated it liked it Shelves: read-via-edelweiss , birds , polar-regions , maritime-adventure , reviewed-bookkaholic , victorian-pastiche. His patrons are a group of London collectors with money riding on whether this penguin-like bird is actually gone without trace.

Curiously, Saxby is convinced that he has known Clara before, nearly a decade ago — except then she was known as Celeste Cottesloe, daughter of a Norfolk country squire whose bird egg collection he was busily repairing and cataloguing.

Celeste seemed to be a prisoner in her room; she would whisper out to Eliot from the keyhole, begging him to help her escape — which he did, but to disastrous effect. Is Clara actually Celeste?

Saxby seems certain, but when he recounts the tale for Clara she receives it as just that: an interesting story, but one that has no bearing on her personal life. The idea that Saxby might be delusional, or at least emotionally disturbed, makes him a deliciously unreliable narrator. En route to the distant rocks where the great auk was last seen, the crew stops at many points for what seems like arbitrary and gratuitous hunting.

They harpoon a mother and baby whale for fun, behead a walrus just to keep its tusks, and club dozens of seals. It is the weight of their souls that has caused us all to suffer. At one point during a landing, Saxby leaves the others behind and walks out onto an ice sheet, where he soon gets lost.

Even though I happened to be reading this book while riding through Tuscan wine country, I still felt the sense of vastness and isolation keenly; I even fancied I could feel the searing cold. It is this — it is frozen. Mar 05, Barbara Elsborg added it. What a struggle this book was. The writing was very good.

Some fantastic descriptions but that was part of the problem. The detail on the destruction of seals, whales etc was so heartrending it made me not want to read on. I know it happened. I think it still does to some extent. I’m not hiding my head under a blanket but it’s not a subject of choice for me to want to read about. And yet, the writing as I said was very good. There was a tenseness in the style, a claustrophobic feeling that match What a struggle this book was.

There was a tenseness in the style, a claustrophobic feeling that matched life on the ship. I really did believe I was there with them. Not a pleasant place. The storyline – such as it was – did tie the thing together but the characters were grim and unattractive, even the narrator. He was so passive – well until he wasn’t but even that action was ineffective.

It was a slow read and while I admire the style of writing, it was subject matter that I found it difficult to cope with. Nov 28, Horror Bookworm Reviews rated it really liked it. Saxby has been hired by influential acquaintances to venture out on a merchant ship that makes routine trips to the Arctic to deliver supplies and trade with Esquimaux groups.

The purpose for Mr. Saxbys participation is to collect eggs and natural artifacts from a rare and extinct bird. He finds himself isolated on the craft with men driven by profit only. The journey quickly turns horrific as the crew begin their obsessed greedy actions of slaughter upon seals, walruses, and whales for their valuable animal parts.

The expedition becomes one of great imbalance by filling the ships hull with skins, feathers, and bones against the belief all animals have a soul and are connected by a continuation of life that man has little understanding of.

A struggle between guarding the legacy of the scarce bird species and selfishness of the Captain to capitalize on the rarity of the breed escalates into a deadly feud that will surely end in tragedy. This story is written with a heavy hearted important message. The difficult task of protecting natural wildlife and their habitat is a constant underlying idea that is told brilliantly through characterization that is guaranteed to move the heart and emotions of the reader.

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