Jason Smiley Stewart - My Life Story
Volume 2 - Telegraph Island
What Readers have written about 'Telegraph Island'
The author is clearly a born storyteller and this book lives up to the promise of Vol. 1. It continues to hold the reader’s attention – a real page-turner. The geographical locations are knowledgeably described and the heroic incidents very excitingly pictured. World wide communication is largely taken for granted in this 21st century while few of us realise the problems and dangers that were involved in the laying of telegraph cables in remote and hostile parts of the world.
Jason Smiley Stewart is an engaging character that comes over as someone the reader wishes to hear more of and I look forward to Vol. 111 and the continuation of his life story. It would be tantalising indeed not to know the final out come.
A captivating story with the hardships endured at the beginning of modern communications as a backdrop. I liked this.
I enjoyed Volume 2 of your saga enormously, and you have kept the ongoing storyline well. Your detailed descriptions of rural and town life, and the social etiquette of the mid 19th century painted a vivid picture and the pages ran at times like a BBC costume drama.
The passages about Mussandam and Telegraph island were also vivid but these were enhanced by pictures in my mind’s eye of the region having lived for 1 ½ years on Jazirat al Ghanem (Goat Island) a few miles north of Elphinstone inlet, which I passed frequently on dhow trips to and from Khasab, the main point of access. (I can’t say port of access as none existed 25 years ago.) I only made one trip onto Telegraph Island and I looked through the photographs of my leave, with shots of the steeper north side. I can remember only too well burning my hands climbing up the rocks and sweating profusely in the summer in the Mussandam.
By now we should be in the late 1860s, Jason still a young man and embarking on his marriage to Joanna. How long do you think you can keep the tale going, Jason should be able to see Queen Victoria out and see in the turn of the century with quite a family. Best of luck. Keep up the good work.
A vividly written second novel that had me on Telegraph Island and in the boat escaping with Jason Smiley-Stewart, not to mention wishing that he propose to Miss Evans. You have held my interest a second time with your writing, and I have enjoyed the second part of this young man’s story.
Translated from the original German Text. In pleasant and unsentimental language the Author has succeeded brilliantly in telling the reader about the life style of the Victorian social class. The reader is involved in a fascinating world at the beginning of technical progress with all the pioneering work that required the nowadays unimaginable effort, to overcome all the obstacles.