One more Jackie Faber adventure that starts in the orient where she gets swept off her boat in a major storm, everyone presumes her dead, but of course she survives with Ravi, her Indian boy. They end up in Burma, save a village from some nasty men, head off to Rangoon, where she lands in the house of Chopstick Charlie - Chan-Le. He is very wealthy and Jackie convinces him to let her bring some of his riches to the British Museum, where she hopes to gain a pardon. Her Jamie loses it when he thinks her dead and goes on a rampage.
I would say I learned less of history from this book, but still enjoyed her adventures. Jackie always picks up new skills in each adventure, but the only new skill I think she adopted here was belly dancing - which came in handy. Maybe she learned some of the oriental instruments. I did not quite understand why she kept up the hair style from her Chinese adventure of a shorn head and just a pigtail. It was great for shock value, but once in England it made no sense to me. I have to admit I think I like Lord Richard Allen the best of all her beaus. As she prances around the world, her crowd of friends (and a few enemies) grows.
Just a quick pick-me-up during a hard day. Once I saw the illustration and the title I immediately thought about ten sons and ten suns, and for a brief moment was wondering if I had forgotten which way to spell which. (That constant fear of Alzheimer's)
One of the many tales I have not heard. Mother Xi drives one of her ten sons to the eastern horizon, and then the son/sun would walk across the sky to warm all the people and living things. Just one at a time, as too many of them together would be too hot. But the sons/suns got bored of doing this by themselves....
Not sure if this is a system of gods. We have the great emperor (not capitalized) step in, then Hu YI, the Archer of Heaven (capiatlized). Ah he had once been a man and invented the bow and arrow. The gods placed him in the heavens among the constellations. (Orion?)
Wonderful illustrations by Yongsheng Xuan.
