I have generally liked the Harold Bindloss books I've read previously, some eight of them so far. But this book was a bit tough. The problem, mostly, was that the book was hideously, and unremittingly racist. Instead of the Pacific Northwest, where many of Bindloss books are set, this one is set along the coast of Western Africa, and it's chock full of racial characterizations of native Africans. But it goes beyond that, we also have racial characterizations of Iberians, Latins, even Anglo Saxons. Everyone, apparently, acts according to the dictates of his or her "blood". How did I manage to read the whole thing?

While I fave it 3*, it should really have a minus appended, 3*-. ( )