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Beam Ends Hardcover – December 1, 1976

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Errol Flynn

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English
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Buccaneer Books
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December 1, 1976
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6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-10

0899660924
ISBN-13

978-0899660929
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Buccaneer Books; First Thus edition (December 1, 1976)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0899660924
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0899660929
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches

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Bariebel

Errol Flynn the Magnificent!

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2009

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I always loved Errol Flynn and I wanted to read his books to learn what kind of writer he was. And to my surprise, I found out what an exceptional great writer he was. Extremely conversational, one can visualize being at the place at the same time. In addition, I also love his other books "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" and "Showdown", which are in every way as entertaining and in many passages I laughed my head off. "What a guy" is all one can say.
Errol Flynn was an exceptional writer and what a wonderful command of the English language he had; what a pity he never pursuit this talent of his fully.
Beams End is full of wit, action packed and full of youthful bravado.
Three adventurers set sail up the east coast of Australia in a sail boat Errol Flynn acquires rather accidentally. He describes a voyage, which would be a true delight to a real hearty sailor. The description of the passage is truly outstanding very realistic and as known he was a great lover, but most of all a lover of the sea.
In this book all the characters and descriptions of even to the smallest detail of a plants, scenery, storms, mishaps and ocean life comes vibrantly alive.
He was a such multi-talented man, in every instance truly magnificent. There are only very few man born in the world with his looks, caliber, charisma, magnetism, bravado, talent and possibly many other attributes he possibly had. He truly was magnificent - an extremely gifted man!

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Payload

Who Can Touch Him?

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2015

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A gifted writer, young Errol Flynn puts to print his adventure on the high seas. Clearly, Flynn was first a writer and second a thespian. His adroit vocabulary splashes onto mental canvas all the colours of his daring youth. It flies in the face of the tacky smear-job foisted as his autobiography (*My Wicked Wicked Ways* is a fake and a forgery). No way that Flynn wrote that drivel. *Beam Ends* proves his writer's voice. Incomparable. Inimitable. By the charts we track his course on the Sirocco. His descriptives of the islands along the way prove his path. His scholarly observations of the Great Barrier Reef, the island indigenous and God's glorious creation cement the voyage in hard copy -- the only way to fly. Impossible to falsify. The fibre of the man's character is lain bare for all to read. His admiration of the Dook spells it out. The way the book ends spells it out. I have written that nobody could touch him as an actor. Now I add with gusto that nobody can touch him as a writer either.

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Alexander Duffy

A real adventure story by a genuine legend

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2015

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What an absolute legend. I was surprised by how articulate he is as well. Fascinating window into the young life of the man. He wrote it during the front end of his career - I saw a documentary which said he was more proud of this book than the films he had made to date at the time. Certainly makes you believe that it was his true swashbuckling self that gave his performances on the silver screen their authenticity. I haven't read any other books or 'autobiographies' about or by him but I think this one will ring truer than the others. he reflects on the specific adventure (And what an awesome one!) and I think the general tone, considering where he was in his life when he wrote it, reveals a lot about who he really was, better than a ghost written autobiography, covering a longer time frame, could.

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Dennis

Beam Ends

Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2011

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Errol Flynn was an adventure before he was a movie star. This story is about one of his adventures before he got famous. In his years of fame, his peers thought he was making up these crazy stories of his past.

The story of the yacht Sirocco was barely mentioned in his autobiography My Wicked Wicked Ways. Errol buys the boat one night when he is blind drunk after selling a mining plot he has claimed in PNG. The boat is old and not a sea boat. It was designed for harbor racing. However they set off on the journey from Sydney to PNG anyway. Their money runs out and they resort to any means necessary to get a buck including scams and drug running. Along the way they meet many crazy characters and get into plenty of mischief including brawls and other illegal activities. A must read for any adventurer or sailor.

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Tony D.

Only for diehard Errol Flynn fans.

Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2017

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This first book by Errol Flynn is so poorly written in some places, that it can be hard to read.

Luckily, his writing seems to get better as the book progresses.

Mr. Flynn has a great knack for painting a picture of the people he meets, as he takes you along on this epic adventure. His stories explore the warmth he finds in strangers, the hardheartedness of men, and the child-like innocence of a young woman.

He shows you how hard a man will work when his life is on the line, and he walks that line to the very end of this book.

There's an intensity to the living of life that fills the pages of this book, but it isn't expressed as completely as it could have been, so it leaves you wanting a little more.

Errol Flynn was a man of extreme adventure, and some larceny, and in his wake he leaves behind the story of an amazing life.

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Peter McCrickard

Yes great to be young with a sense of adventure

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2014

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Still reading. Yes great to be young with a sense of adventure.

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Eliot The Pilot & Rosalita

Five Stars