Rees's story is certainly gripping - slavers used all sorts of ruses to evade capture, from running up a different flag (only certain countries had legal agreements with Britain) to simply throwing slaves overboard ...
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
Sian Rees combines thorough research and strong storytelling in Sweet Water and Bitter
Pride Magazine
A packed history of bounty-hunting and piracy, of high principle and low skulduggery, of roiling surf and disease-infested swamps and of the seemingly endless African coast
Kate Colquhoun, Daily Telegraph
Rees's story is certainly gripping - slavers used all sorts of ruses to evade capture, from running up a different flag (only certain countries had legal agreements with Britain) to simply throwing slaves overboard ...
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
Sian Rees combines thorough research and strong storytelling in Sweet Water and Bitter
Pride Magazine
A packed history of bounty-hunting and piracy, of high principle and low skulduggery, of roiling surf and disease-infested swamps and of the seemingly endless African coast
Kate Colquhoun, Daily Telegraph
Rees's story is certainly gripping - slavers used all sorts of ruses to evade capture, from running up a different flag (only certain countries had legal agreements with Britain) to simply throwing slaves overboard ...
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
Sian Rees combines thorough research and strong storytelling in Sweet Water and Bitter
Pride Magazine
A packed history of bounty-hunting and piracy, of high principle and low skulduggery, of roiling surf and disease-infested swamps and of the seemingly endless African coast