Advantages: Interesting true story of a convict ship, detailed coverage of court records, readable Disadvantages: Some details inevitably speculative
set sail for Botany Bay to address Governor Phillip's needs. Her cargo of 237 women convicts had been procured by emptying the female cells of gaols in London and across the country. Her year-long voyage would include stops at Tenerife, the Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town. Her eventual arrival at her destination would not be quite as welcome as might have been predicted.
Siân Rees has used diverse contemporary records to research in detail the characters that comprised the ship's human cargo, their probable experiences at sea and what became of them on arrival.
The extensive use of court records in the early chapters provides the reader with an overwhelming amount of detail. It is skilfully presented in a way which brings out the diversity of cases involved, and engenders sympathy for many of the convict ...
made to a title, most of which are direct translations of the original French. Hergé was shocked to learn that slavery was still flourishing in the 1950s, and 'The Red Sea Sharks' draws attention to the problem.
At this stage Hergé had been drawing Tintin adventures for almost three decades, and I believe his style was at its peak. All the characters look just right, and he is adventurous with their poses; the drawings of Professor Calculus balancing on his motorised roller-skates are a triumph of line, anatomy and humour.
Gone are the generic planes and ships of previous adventures; the heroes are attacked by a Mosquito fighter, and the many different vessels in the story (I know from the exhibition that there were eleven in all, from the raft on which Tintin, Haddock and Skut are marooned to the big cargo ship Ramona ...
Advantages: Different setting, good seats, good toilet facilities, variety of food and drink (if you like that sort of thing) Disadvantages: Expensive, hard to find, not enough seats.
Cargo is in that oh-so-trendy area of London known as Shoreditch (sounds delightful, doesn't it?) and, as such, instinctively drew my suspicions. They clearly fancy themselves as being the club of the moment and yet, despite being almost a year old, I'd never been there until December. And, believe me, I've been EVERYWHERE in London that will let me in.
Of course, being oh-so-trendy they've hidden themselves away in a hard to find railway arch. Rule no 1:Don't go on your own. Arrange to meet your freinds at the tube station (Old Street - but don't arrange to meet them anywhere but the ticket gates of the station as it has copious numbers of exits) and then walk there together as it involves many dark deserted alleyways and unfriendly sidestreets. Rule no 2: if you can't go with someone who knows, e-mail the club and ask for a map ...
anna_mcnally 15.01.2002
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