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Captain Samuel Salt (from 1931's Pirates in Oz) sails the Nonestic Ocean and discovers Ozamaland, a legendary land of flying animals, as well as the famous White City of Om, and other places. Captain Salt in Oz is a rare Oz book whose action takes place entirely outside the land of Oz and deals only indirectly with its inhabitants. [2] (
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is the 30th volume in the Oz book series, and the 16th Oz novel written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It is a sequel to her earlier Pirates in Oz, and employs some of the same characters and settings.
King Ato the Eighth and Roger the Read Bird are at home on Octagon Island; Roger reads to his master while Ato scans the horizon, looking for Captain Samuel Salt and his ship the Crescent Moon. The Captain was supposed to return for them six months after their last adventure; but three years, eleven months, and 26 days have passed, before the Captain finally shows up.
Changes have occurred in Salt's situation. He is a pirate no longer, but now the official Explorer and Discoverer Extraordinary to the Crown of Oz. And he has replaced the troublesome crew of his ship with magical mechanisms that allow him to sail it virtually on his own. He can still use a cook, though; and Ato is happy to take up his old job. Ato, Roger, and the Captain sail off for discovery and adventure.
They visit an erupting volcano before reaching the "jungly" island of Patrippany. There they find an unusual situation: the local Leopard People were holding a little boy prisoner in a cage. The Leopard People have been exterminated by a hurricane, and the boy has been fed and cared for by a matronly talking hippopotamus named Nikobo. The boy informs the new arrivals that he is Tazander Tazah, the son of the king of Ozamaland; they free him from his confinement, nickname him Tandy, and take him aboard their ship. Nikobo refuses to leave the boy, so they build a raft for her and take her along too.
The crew then proceeds through a string of fabulous escapades. They reach Peakenspire Island, the Sea Forest, and Seeweegia in turn. Captain Salt collects specimens of plants and animals: a salamander named Sally, a Monkey Fish, a Jellyfish Boy. The ship is attacked and pierced by a giant narwhal; but the crew drive it off and keep its horn. They encounter an incredible hole in the ocean that comes close to doing them in.
As these adventures progress, Tandy comes out of his shell, and learns to accept his new friends and to embrace fun and excitement and work. He grows strong and fit with shipboard life.
The voyage's last stop is Tandy's home of Ozamaland. There, the boy king has to face the dangerous conspiracy of Didjabo and the Ozamandarins. Yet the Captain, Ato, Roger, and Nikobo help him to triumph over his enemies. Tandy appoints an honorable and capable regent, then returns to sea to complete his "education."
was the second Oz book which did not include color illustrations in its first edition. The Road to Oz was the first. The colorlessness continued for the rest of the canonical series.
In several of her later books, Thompson largely abandons Baum's Oz for her own characters, settings, and stories. Captain Salt in Oz is uniquely extreme in this tendency: not one of Baum's characters appears in the book, and Thompson's characters never reach the Ozian homeland or get particularly close to it. (One later book, The Silver Princess in Oz, featured only Thompson-created characters, but had scenes set in the Gillikin Country of Oz.)
Thompson maintains a general correspondence between real-world durations and Oz time in her books - though it is not always a perfect match. As noted above, nearly four years pass between King Ato's first voyage with Captain Salt and his second; the books in which the two voyages are recounted were actually published five years apart.
Thompson's Nikobo is reminiscent of humorous hippos in Baum's works, in The Woggle-Bug Book and "The Laughing Hippopotamus."
LanguageIn this book, Thompson employs the fantastic and imaginative language she displays elsewhere in her Oz work. Nikobo is a "pachydermatous talking aquatic." Tandy's old tutor was called Woodjabegoodja. An attacking sea serpent is a "marine ophidian."
Death and injuryThere reportedly is no death in Oz, yet there remains the potential for pain, injury, and suffering. Two passages in Captain Salt in Oz provide perspective on this irony. When the travelers confront the exploding volcano early in the book, Ato notes that
"Samuel Salt is Captain of this ship, a Knight and the Royal Discoverer of Oz, which makes him seventy times as important as you, King Pins. He not only is boss of the Crescent Moon , but he rules the sea, discovering countries for other Kings to govern, and if it were not for Samuel Salt and people like him, there wouldn't be any Kingdoms nor ...
Captain Salt in Oz (1936) is the thirtieth in the series of Oz novels created by L. Frank Baum. (Original publisher's book summary) Genre (s): General. Language: English. Group: Oz books. LibriVox.
17 nov 2021 · English. LibriVox recording of Captain Salt in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Read in English by Phil Chenevert; A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or even Pacific, but have we found a SEA FOREST with flying fish and swimming birds?
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Captain Salt in Oz is a rare Oz book whose action takes place entirely outside the land of Oz and deals only indirectly with its inhabitants. (Compare with Baum's Rinkitink in Oz, another volume in the series with a limited connection to Oz.) Salt goes from island to island, claiming them in Princess Ozma 's name.
