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caitlin_bookchats's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Body horror and Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Racism, Medical content, Cannibalism, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Colonisation
This book contains the most gruesome description of scurvy I have ever read. Also, cw: survival cannibalism, animal deathbergha1998's review against another edition
3.75
“You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.”
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don’t—the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear out.”
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
prettiestwhistles's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Child death, Racism, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Colonisation
schausjk's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Child death, Cursing, Genocide, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
kellyofcali's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death and Abandonment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Gun violence, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Body horror and Confinement
laura_nel13's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Classism
zeldazonks's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cannibalism
ekcd_'s review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
cristinar1800's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Vomit, Trafficking, Colonisation, and War
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Alcohol
knkoch's review against another edition
3.75
I really liked that David Grann gave great context into the Indigenous tribes the men from this ship interacted with and the impact that naval expeditions had on them and all others in South and North America in the eighteenth century especially. It felt like he was resetting the image of journeys like these, moving away from glory and adventure into the grinding hardship, weaknesses of leadership, imperial greed, racist assumptions of superiority/inferiority, and endless jockeying between major European empires like Spain and England. Grann developed the historical characters well, and clearly established how naval honor codes, class, and rank influenced the events at sea and land. Shocked to learn that
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gun violence, Racism, Xenophobia, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Minor: Cannibalism
Eating disorder: Much discussion of starvation, but not sure what TW may fit better.