- Published: 1 April 2010
- ISBN: 9781845951177
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
Sweet Water and Bitter
The Ships that Stopped the Slave Trade
- Published: 1 April 2010
- ISBN: 9781845951177
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 368
- RRP: $32.99
extensive knowledge...uses her sources to good effect
Jonathan Mirsky, Literary Review
A compelling and moving tale
The Times
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 (early on, slave ships could be impounded only if the 'cargo' were actually on board)
Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
Sian Rees combines thorough research and strong storytelling in Sweet Water and Bitter
Pride Magazine
Fascinating history...Sian Rees is to be congratulated on telling the story so vividly
Ian Thomson, Times Literary Supplement
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
All in all it is a complex tale of cruelty, skulduggery, diplomacy, high principles, naval action and the like, but all held together well and told very readably
www.thebookbag.co.uk
The book is a joy to read: well-written and fast-paced... Rees succeeds admirably in bringing to life the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade...
Emma Christopher, History Today
A fluent and lively account
Guardian