| Author: | Brian Callison | ISBN: | 1230000028366 |
| Publisher: | Steamship eBooks | Publication: | November 2, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Brian Callison |
| ISBN: | 1230000028366 |
| Publisher: | Steamship eBooks |
| Publication: | November 2, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Within fourteen minutes the fatally-stricken cargo vessel Lycomedes will plunge forever beneath the storm-shredded waters of the North Sea with fifty four men, a limpid-eyed dog and a foul-beaked parrot aboard. Into that agonizingly brief span is packed a lifetime of turbulence and tragedy: moments of cowardice and courage; of pathos and humour and the terrible deaths of many: even, incredibly, moments of boredom and exultation. We meet her crew for only a tiny fragment of their mortal lives, yet under the stresses of disaster we grow to know them intimately; to understand and feel for them in their peril.
With experience and authority Callison, himself a former Merchant Navy officer, vividly portrays those moments of catastrophe in such a way that you, the reader, will live through every instant while Lycomedes tears herself apart beneath your feet. A Ship is Dying is as stirring, as overwhelming a sea-story as has ever been recounted.
Brian Callison compresses a chilling collection of marine horrors, all the more horrible because of his matter-of-fact tone. The behavior of men under stress gives the book a powerful chemistry. New York Times
*Make no mistake; Mr Callison can grip you … Conrad would have liked a lot of this book. *The Wall Street Journal
Within fourteen minutes the fatally-stricken cargo vessel Lycomedes will plunge forever beneath the storm-shredded waters of the North Sea with fifty four men, a limpid-eyed dog and a foul-beaked parrot aboard. Into that agonizingly brief span is packed a lifetime of turbulence and tragedy: moments of cowardice and courage; of pathos and humour and the terrible deaths of many: even, incredibly, moments of boredom and exultation. We meet her crew for only a tiny fragment of their mortal lives, yet under the stresses of disaster we grow to know them intimately; to understand and feel for them in their peril.
With experience and authority Callison, himself a former Merchant Navy officer, vividly portrays those moments of catastrophe in such a way that you, the reader, will live through every instant while Lycomedes tears herself apart beneath your feet. A Ship is Dying is as stirring, as overwhelming a sea-story as has ever been recounted.
Brian Callison compresses a chilling collection of marine horrors, all the more horrible because of his matter-of-fact tone. The behavior of men under stress gives the book a powerful chemistry. New York Times
*Make no mistake; Mr Callison can grip you … Conrad would have liked a lot of this book. *The Wall Street Journal
