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Cargando... Hunting the Dragonpor Peter Dixon
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I found this wooden, implausible, boring, and didactic. Too bad because the subject matter -- dolphins at the mercy of illegal tuna fishing boats -- has a lot of potential for a meaningful and exciting story. There were some good survival story moments when the hero Billy (the eighteen-year-old-but-reads-as-ten-year-old boy trying to stop a particular tuna boat called The Lucky Dragon, captained by the most stock villain ever to be written) is stranded at sea, but otherwise‰ÃƒÂ›_I have rarely read such awkward writing in a published novel. Not good. ( ) After losing his job as a surf tour instructor, the main character becomes a boatman on the Lucky Dragon. The Dragon is a tuna fishing boat that uses illegal practices which end up killing dolphins. With the help of Chatter, a remarkable dolphin who always shows up at the right place at the right time, and an environmental group dead set on stopping the Dragon, Billy fights back. A bit far-fetched for my taste and the odd love triangle between the dolphin, Billy, and a pretty environmentalist didn't ring true. The action of the plot kept me going though. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Billy Crawford is a blond, eighteen-year-old surfer from Southern California, working in Fiji as a surfing instructor. But when he gets fired for leading his students into some dangerous surf, his endless summer seems to be over, and he decides that it's time to get a real job. He comes across a tuna clipper called Lucky Dragon whose crew is short a boatman, and the first mate offers him a job. What Billy doesn't know is that the clipper finds tuna by following dolphins. When Lucky Dragon sets its net for the first time, Billy witnesses a harrowing sightâ??dolphins being killed by the Dragon's money-hungry pirates. When he attempts to save a dolphin who is caught in the tuna net, the Dragon's captain tosses Billy and his belongingsâ??including his surfboardâ??into the ocean an No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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