Destination Callao
by David Adamson Harper
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Pub Date Oct 08 2020 | Archive Date Nov 01 2020
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Description
All good historical novels have a fascinating story written around a real event in history. In DESTINATION CALLAO the author has taken two separate historical events and woven them together into a thrilling story that has all the elements of adventure, romance and enough saber rattling to more than satisfy those with a taste for action, including a duel with cutlasses and a deadly ambush.
The year is 1851 and Conor Fitzgerald, a former Midshipman in the Royal Navy having passed his Lieutenant's Examination fins he cannot get a Navy commission. He obtains a position as second mate on a merchant sailing ship that is heading for Callao, Peru, with a party of 180 Irish immigrants. To get to Callao the ship Louisa has to sail around Cape Horn in winter when it runs into more than just bad weather.
They arrive in Callao where the immigrants plans to set up a farming community are set back when they find that disease is rampant and they lose many in their number.Conor decides to stay in Callao where he goes to work for a Scottish ship chandler.
When the famous Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives in Peru in October 1851 he and Conor become friends but Garibaldi has enemies from his previous military encounters and none greater than the French. The French colony in Lima tries to humiliate him and when that doesn't work they set out to kill him. Conor finds himself drawn into these events and is forced to fight for his own life while trying to work out his future and his marriage prospects.
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Featured Reviews
Trick W, Reviewer
David Adamson Harper he did a fantastic job on this historical fast pace exciting story! Destination Callao is such a adventurous story combining a part of history and doing such a wonderful job doing it! Follow Conor from the very beginning of his Navy career to take to sea and his adventures of the trials of getting settlers to their destination and all the trials they have to face to not only get there but what surprises they have to face one they get there! You feel like you are on this voyage with all these settlers as they search for a new life,new land and adventures of their own. The research for this time of history and the research that was done for all the traveling on the ship,you can tell it was very well done as I learned so much about not only the things you need to know about ships and the sea but of the areas they were going to,Cape Of Horn, Callao leaving from England and the different characters taking this long voyage. Long,long trip,what troubles will they face,will they all make it and the part that Conor and his friends play in this important time in his life! Wonderful story I never lost interest and must look for other works that this author has written. If you love adventures on the sea,this is your book!! Received from Net Gallery!! Believe you me as you read you will forget your reading.
