Call the Hands: A Collection of Naval Yarns [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

During his twenty-nine years on the high seas former Royal Navy officer Roger Paine served all over the globe and in almost every kind of ship - from submarine to frigate, and from destroyers and aircraft carriers to ice patrol ship. In this delightful miscellany of light-hearted 'yarns' he charts the ups and downs of life both afloat and ashore. The hazards - including a seasick parrot, a gun-toting generalissimo, and the ever-present danger of diplomatic faux pas - and the pleasures - sun-drenched ports and glamorous cocktail parties aplenty. En route, we also get to know about the venerable history of rum, the sailor's favourite tipple; the importance of ships' pets in promoting the welfare of seafarers; and the traditional RN toasts for each and every day of the week! Charming, irreverent and occasionally indiscreet, here are 'salty' tales to be savoured and treasured.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Roger Paine joined the Royal Navy as a junior rating, aged sixteen, and retired voluntarily twenty-nine years later in the rank of Commander. Since leaving the Navy he has worked in the City of London, as the bursar of a large grammar school, as secretary to the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum and as partnership administrator of a national firm of land agents. Now a full-time writer, he lives in an eighteenth-century cottage within the confines of a Saxon churchyard in rural Sussex.