Sunshine, Sugi and Salt: a Sea Story of Sorts: Volume 1 (A Seafaring Baptism and Thereafter) [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

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'Sunshine, Sugi and Salt' is a light-hearted take on a way of life that sadly no longer exists, for although in the second decade of the twenty-first century ninety-five per-cent of international commerce is still conducted by sea, the methods employed in transporting those cargoes, along with present-day crewing arrangements, means that in the last fifty years, seafaring as an occupation has changed out of all recognition. Set in the early nineteen-sixties, the story relates how a starry-eyed teenager, Steve Chapman, sets out to see the world as a junior catering rating aboard a cargo liner in the British Merchant Navy, where boys became men overnight because if they didn't they would never have prospered. It tells how as a naive seventeen year-old he rapidly finds his feet among his fellow crewmen, how he learns the job from the bottom up, suffering some wicked but ultimately harmless leg-pulling along the way; how he visits some fantastic and faraway places, enjoying fabulous adventures but also experiencing some frustrating reversals. There are brushes with the law and some narrow escapes but somehow he comes through them all. But above all his education is furthered to a far greater extent than it ever would have been if he'd remained a landsman, and he returns home at the end of the voyage as a wiser, more worldly young man.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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