Ships - History, Seafaring Life, Ships - General, Ships - Civilian & Commercial Vessels, Sailing - Narratives, World History - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
In the tradition of John McPhee’s Looking for a Ship, Ocean Titans is a sparkling narrative about the birth, life, and death of modern ships—and the men who sail them around the world.
Follow Daniel Sekulich’s worldwide journey at sea, as he describes the dreamers, the builders, the owners, the masters and engineers, and the deckhands. Here is a masterful, colorful portrait of life and sea. The following excerpt will attest to that:
In peace and in war, ships have always left port laden with their cargoes, the sailors resigned to their fates, trying not to think about the madness of the seas and the maliciousness of the human beings who might await them. The wheelhouse officers will plot a course, the engineers will get up speed, and the deckhands will cast off lines. And if anyone is going to get swept overboard, it’s likely to be an ordinary seaman, the rank and file of the merchant-shipping world.
Book Details
Published
May 1, 2007
Publisher
Lyons Press, The
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781599210384