Nautical Chart

"It's an irresistibly juicy set-up, and when Prez-Reverte is really cooking he gets you high on his own hokum....But the story gets bogged down in endless details of charting navigational courses, in degree differences between ancient charts and modern ones, in history lessons that slowly reveal the story of the ship they are questing for. Instead of immersing you in a world of adventure and romance, the facts that Prez-Reverte keeps enumerating get in the way of the story, and the action sputters along....It may be churlish to balk at flaws when an author is as entertaining as Prez-Reverte at his best. But he's good enough to have gotten his readers used to high standards."Pérez-Reverte, Arturo is the author of 'Nautical Chart' with ISBN 9780156029827 and ISBN 0156029820.