EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES
FISH OUT OF WATER, by Gilbert Hack-forth-Jones; Hodder and Stoughton, English price 10/6. SEA TO EDEN, by Bennett Stanley; Hodder and Stoughton, English price 10/6, HE sea forms a link between these two dissimilar novels. Gilbert Hack-forth-Jones is a retired naval] commander, and in Fish Out of Water, about a naval officer sent to supervise muni-tions-making in a Midland town in the last war, he must have drawn on his own experiences when similarly posted. Sea to Eden is nearly all the story of a ship and her complement. Financially on their beam-ends at Panama, the unmarried English couple who own and run the yacht Wanderer, advertise for working passengers. Exciting and well-written, Fish Out of Water has the special interest of showing us how an industrial centre in Britain stood up to the bombing. The New Chief Inspector found his department in rather a sorry state, and uncovered some dirty work of sabotage, the disposal of which took him to sea
again; but the heart of the community was quite sound, and its beats are registered here with knowledge and understanding. The Wanderer's passengers are a New England Minister planning an Eden in the Pacific; his granite-minded wife and daughter of fifteen; a young man of his ‘flock filled with religious fanaticism and lust; an artist and his wife: and a stowaway from Panama who seeks her husband imprisoned in the forbidden Galapagos Islands. On the high seas the English skipper and his companionmate have trouble enough handling this explosive mixture, but at the Galapagos everything is thrown in-attacking convicts, and even sharks. It is an incredible story, but Bennett Stanley writes well about the sea, and he has a lovely
ship to navigate.
A.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 14
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289EXPLOSIVE MIXTURES New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 824, 13 May 1955, Page 14
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