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Original Title: Trade Wind
ISBN: 0553253115 (ISBN13: 9780553253115)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Zanzibar(Tanzania, United Republic of)
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Trade Wind Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 553 pages
Rating: 3.97 | 2743 Users | 146 Reviews

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The scene is teeming Zanzibar just before the American Civil War, when the Isle of Cloves was a center of African slave trade. To it comes Hero Athena Hollis, a Boston bluestocking filled with self-righteousness and bent on good deeds.

Then she meets Rory Frost, a cynical, wicked, shrewd and good-humored trader in slaves. What is Hero to make of him (and of her feelings for him)?

"Tightly plotted, crammed with detail and irresistibly romantic." (Cosmopolitan)

Note: M.M. Kaye is the author of The Far Pavilions, one of the great stories to emerge from British India.


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Title:Trade Wind
Author:M.M. Kaye
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 553 pages
Published:March 1st 1985 by Bantam (first published 1963)
Categories:Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Fiction. Historical Romance. Cultural. Africa. Adventure

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Ratings: 3.97 From 2743 Users | 146 Reviews

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Trade Wind is one of those delightful books that you can tell belongs to another decade, just from the sentence structure and style of storytelling. I couldn't quite tell while I was reading whether the historical setting was meant to be a device to advance the story, or whether the main characters' lives were an opportunity to write about the political and social situation in Zanzibar. Yes - Zanzibar.Hero Athena Hollis (our heroine) is on her way to her uncle's family in Zanzibar when she

Every bit as good the second time round! In fact better, because now I was throughly prepared for how things would go and able to love it anyway. Something I noticed that I hadn't before is that many of the characters that I started out with a dislike for, acquitted themselves by the end. And, while some of them never do or never can (as the case may be), make up for the past for the most part I am happy with how they all "grew", even those who considered themselves well versed in the ways of

This is one of those books where you feel like giving the heroine a real good smack! In fact nearly all the women in this historical romance are portrayed as silly, gullible and incapable of rational thought processes. Having said that, it's a book full of romance and exotic locations, and the author has incorporated interesting historical events. The attitudes to slavery are brutal and disturbing but representative of the age. I think that if I had read this in my late teens or early twenties I

Group read November 2014. Trade Wind is panoramic historical romance, in the style of M.M. Kayes others, Shadow of the Moon and Far Pavilions, both of which I read years ago, before Amazon and Goodreads made it possible for me to find more of her books. Trade Wind is still out of print, but I was able to obtain a used paperback copy. Despite the yellowing pages and the cheesy cover, it was easy to sink into this storyits vivid, sensory writing, delivering the harsh and sometimes absurd

This book was entirely not what I suspected yet I loved it anyway. Eventually. Trade Wind was a slow read for me. I cant remember the last time it took me six weeks to finish a book. And it wasnt that I was putting it aside to read another book when it started to get dense (which I often do), I just read it sparingly in my free time, slowing chipping away at its many pages. For most of the read, I was impatient (with both the characters and the plot) and waiting for the real action to build. I

All the sea is not deep enough to wash away blood relationship. What is written is written...Visit those you love, though your abode be distant,And clouds and darkness have arisen between you...This is the extraordinary story of Hero Hollis and Rory Frost which is settled in Zanzibar. The author did a splendid work by describing the story of this not-well know island during slavery in the 19th century, showing the unfair game between France and England in order to profit of these workers.For

This is the story of Hero Athena Hollis, an extremely independent woman of the 19th century, vehemently opposed to slavery and all of society's injustices and determined to use her wealth to stamp them out. After Hero's father dies, she is invited to join her family in Zanzibar where her uncle is serving as the American Counsel. Hero's family always expected that she would marry her aunt's son by a first marriage, even though she is not sure she's in love with him. While on voyage to Zanzibar