Tours Philippines - Fenwick Travers and the Forbidden Kingdom: An Entertainment
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Manufacturer: Presidio Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780891414803
ISBN: 0891414800
Label: Presidio Press
Manufacturer: Presidio Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1994-06-01
Publisher: Presidio Press
Release Date: 1994-06-01
Studio: Presidio Press
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As the adventures of the lovable charlatan, gluttonous blackguard, and lecherous philanderer continue, Lieutenant Travers is off to the Philippines where he finds a treasure map that leads him on a series of predictably hilarious adventures.
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Summary: The Unfunny American Flashman
Comment: These books (this one, plus one on the Panama Canal, and another that apparently deals with the Boxer Rebellion) are an attempt to translate the adventures of a character not unlike Harry Flashman into an American setting. The author does reasonably well with historical details, but the other things that Flashman does are remarkably absent, compared with the original. Flashman is funny, and the historical detail is impeccable. Travers isn't funny, and while there is reasonably good historical detail, there's no explanation of what exactly is fact and what isn't. George MacDonald Fraser, the author of the Flashman chronicles, provides footnotes which clarify for you which characters are historical, and give you brief details of their lives and accomplishments. Saunders doesn't bother.
One other weird detail is that Flashman is relentlessly a coward. He never, ever fights if he can avoid it, and when he can't he cowers and whines like a baby. Fraser is a talented enough author to make these incidents believable, but to also make it so that Flashy comes out of these events with a good reputation anyway. Saunders can't (or won't) contrive circumstances like Fraser does: Travers whines and grovels, and then kills half of the other characters in the book. He winds up chopping several Philipine warriors to death in this book, for instance. It's a bit much.
For the good historical detail he does provide (accounts of various of the incidents in the Phillipine insurgency of about a century ago) the author gets his extra star above the first one, but other than that there's not much here, and I wouldn't recommend this book.
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