The Flamingo Feather

This is an adventure story based loosely on events in the 1560s in Florida when Fort Caroline was established by the French, captured by the Spanish, then with local help, recaptured by the French. Several of the characters were real people, most are, I suspect, invented. Written in 1887, the writing......more

This isn't for everybody--but I really liked it. It's a very entertaining adventure novel in the vein of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson or Last of the Mohicans if Alexandre Dumas had written it instead of James Fenimore Cooper. I thought I was gonna hate it when I came across the archaic......more

In about 1955, at about ten years of age, I first read this book. It was the first library book that ever read. It so stimulated me that it inspired me to become a an avid reader especially of books related to history and historic times. The story is so facinating and so well written as to stimulate......more

I just couldn't finish it. It wasn't holding my interest at all.......more