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A review by melissadeemcdaniel
Valiant Gentlemen by Sabina Murray
4.0
What happens when the explorers return?
Sabrina Murray explores the intimate lives of the men and women who left Europe to explore the world at the turn of the century. She brings them back to England, to their wives and families and then sends them back out again, always somehow uncomfortable, at home everywhere and nowhere, loving and hating the families that anchor them.
Murray probes the moral ambiguities of colonial exploitation and of English mores, while watching the world edge closer and finally into war.
Sabrina Murray explores the intimate lives of the men and women who left Europe to explore the world at the turn of the century. She brings them back to England, to their wives and families and then sends them back out again, always somehow uncomfortable, at home everywhere and nowhere, loving and hating the families that anchor them.
Murray probes the moral ambiguities of colonial exploitation and of English mores, while watching the world edge closer and finally into war.