Whither O Ship: Adventures In A Tramp Steamer - Hardcover

Green, Stanley Roger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0720607434 ISBN 13: 9780720607437

Publisher: Peter Owen, 1989

Synopsis

Just after the Second World War the author, as a Merchant Navy cadet, sailed round the world in a tramp steamer, the SS Rembrandt. The world was then a very different place, and some of the countries he visited no longer exist politically. Moreover in those days Britain still had the world's largest mercantile fleet. Whither O Ship is a true story, which celebrates the passing of a proud and ancient British tradition. The story centres on the exploits and adventures of a young man who gains his experience of life in a truly tough and a testing environment. He is almost thrown overboard by cargo thieves before he sets sail; is shot at in Palestine; stoned by dissident youths, first in Algeria and later in Jamaica; becomes lost in the Bush in Queensland and, going absent without leave, mak

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Owen
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0720607434
• ISBN 13: 9780720607437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200