On Stranger Tides
Author: Tim Powers
On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers’s great Disneyland ride through pirates, puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from page one.,,In 1718, John Chandagnac, a bookkeeper and puppeteer, unwittingly sails into the company of Blackbeard the pirate, encounters zombie-crewed wrecks, and is caught up in a search for the Fountain of Youth…..Read More
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