These both books together were the first I read when I came to Ireland. I used to read a lot in my language but to read in English would be a new big challenge for me. To start I thought that it would be a good idea if I got books with the same subject that made me love read when I was a teenager. I believed that if I were really interested probably I would give my best to try understand the reading. Other point I thought was that for the reason I was familiarized with the subject I would understand the read intuitively and then learn how English works.
Well I cannot say rather I was wrong or not because it has being not a long time since I start it. But now I think that to learn a new language is not that simple and requires much more than I thought before. Actually I can say that to understand is one thing, to speak is other thing and then interact is other thing. I thought before that I would have to first to understand in order to speak and then to interact. Now I see that we need different practices to understand, to speak and to interact. If I had a good level of understand, it would not necessary means that I have a good level of speaking and so on. Therefore I now believe that to make a good way to learn a new language is necessary to read, to write, to listen and to practice speak a lot. (What I have not done and for this reason I have not taken a the improvement I expected.)
Anyways, backing to the books, they are great. PhD in Archeology Gibbins managed to write fiction with historical information, rich technical detail on archeology, sea expeditions and shipwrecks. The author is a underwater archaeologist and was professor in a UK university before leaving teaching to become a novelist and dedicate himself to carry out fieldwork. The book on Atlantis was his first novel book and Crusader Gold was his second. The author have published others titles since then.
In Atlantis, the marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team are on board of the Seaquest hunting one of the most intriguing legend in history – The Lost Empire of Atlantis. Mixing lessons of history, mystery and adventure, the book is full of what the science knows about this island that was first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In order to make the reader understand all the mystery about Atlantis the author puts discussions between the members of the crew that carry on many pages with a lot of information and assumptions on it.
The crusader Gold is a direct sequence on Atlantis and brings back Jack Howard and his team in a search of the holiest of the treasures called menorah. The menorah is a sacred golden lampstand symbol of the Jewish faith that was taken from Jerusalem probably in 614, when the city was pillaged by the Persians.
Going through the fall of the Roman Empire, the rise of the Vikings, days of Nazi power and ancient bloody rituals in America, Jack Howard takes a gigantic adventure that could change the view of the whole history.
The way that the author manage to show the facts and to develop the action in these books is unique. I love how the crew members interact with each other and the many different places that the author describes. Places like Greenland, UK, Mediterranean and America. The author also puts in the end of each book the facts behind the fiction.
Good as thriller, as a adventure book and as a lesson book. It is a complete entertainment.
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