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"A particularly good story of adventure....The appeal to the red blood in a man's veins is persistent, and the book is full of that vivid color which Mr. Janvier's style enables him to suggest by picturesque phrase. The movement is incessant." -Philadelphia Press "It is difficult, if, indeed, it is possible, to find in any of Mr. Janvier's books a chapter which does not quicken the blood. It seems to a dispassionate reader that he 'stiffens the sinews, summons up the blood,' without 'disguising fair nature with hard-favored rage.' Yet when he writes of the sea, without any of the affectation of the landlubber, and gives with his story a taste of the salt waves, one must admit that he is a good teller of tales for the summer-time as well for the winter....In his last book, 'In the Sargasso Sea,' we have a tale of adventure through which in every line the breeze, and often a gale, is blowing, and in every line of which something is happening....The vigor of the story...and its unrelenting movement from first to last, are such that even the caviller will long remember 'In the Sargasso Sea' as a book that has strongly appealed to his sense of what is worthwhile." -Harper's Magazine "Those who like wild romance will enjoy the book from start to finish." -Chicago Inter-Ocean "In its weird realism will cast into the shade even such thrilling and impossible romances as 'The Frozen Pirate' of Mr. Clark Russell. He has taken for the foundation of his tale the old myth, according to which, in the middle of the Sargasso Sea, all the derelict ships that have lost their crews, since ships first began to cross the Atlantic, are to be found gathering together in an awful company, waiting for the moment when the sea shall give up its dead, an the lost mariners rejoin their lost craft. The hero of 'In the Sargasso Sea,' having inadvertently shipped upon a sailing vessel which is really a slaver in disguise, is promptly knocked on the head and thrown overboard, when the skipper discovers that he is not prepared to join him his nefarious trade. Picked up when at the point of death by a passing steamer, he is still helpless from his injuries when the ship which has rescued him comes to hopeless grief, and is abandoned by her crew, Stelworth, the hero, alone excepted. The Hurst Castle, the big passenger steamer in which Stelworth thus finds himself the sole traveler, joins the great company of dead ships in the Sargasso Sea. It is here that the really thrilling part of Mr. Janvier's story begins....It is a picture of a silent, waveless sea, whereon lie, compact together, thousands of ships which once sailed the ocean like things of life; now silent, deserted, rotting, they await the slow process of decay. At the outer edges of the great pack are recruits of this army of the dead....Mr. Janvier draws a picture of this weird assemblage of lost ships that sends a shiver down the reader's back. The adventures of his hero, strange and striking though they may be, are related with so much realism that they sound like truth. He who loves a story of adventure of the grim and grisly sort can not do better than read 'In the Sargasso Sea.'" -The Speaker, London

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In the Sargasso Sea is a children's novel written in 1898 by Thomas Allibone Janvier. Recently, Kessinger Publishing's rare reprints has re-issued the book.The protagonist, Roger Stetworth, unwillingly joins a slave ship called the "Golden Hind" captained by Luke Chilton. (When Chilton demanded that Roger "sign aboard" he refused and was clubbed on the head and thrown overboard.) He is rescued by the "Hurst Castle" and doctored by a painfully stereotyped Irishman. The "Hurst Castle" is abandoned but does not founder in a gale and the crew, unable to get to him, are forced to leave Stetworth marooned aboard. The ship drifts into the center of the Sargasso Sea where Stetworth finds himself in a ships' graveyard in which survivors of previous shipwrecks still inhabit the forgotten ships. Stetworth must rely on his own ingenuity to get free from the choking sargasso weeds.