Year: 2007 Language: english Author: Nina Sood Publisher: Stellar Publishers Pvt Ltd Edition: Kindle ISBN: 978-93-82035-08-4 Format: EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 356 Description: Sailors have a knack of 'spinning yarns' about their sea voyages that carry them across the global shores. On a dark night bereft of moonlight, the creaking and weird noises emitted by the ship's movements, combined with the sounds of the waves hitting the sides of the vessel, evoke scary memories of ship captains murdered at sea and ghostly apparitions. Life on a cargo merchant vessel is isolated and in a way secluded from the realities of daily life. All the same, there is something whimsical and ethereal about a ship, and you are transported into a terrain, which seems unreal and often personalities change, as the romantic atmosphere takes over encouraging one to leave inhibitions safely ashore. The central figure, Krishan Sood, joined the merchant navy at the tender age of fourteen as a lowly cadet during the early 1940s. It was a time when ships were manned by British officers who spoke with accents alien to him, as was the diet on the ships consisting of roast meat oozing with blood and boiled, bland vegetables. He cheerfully adjusted to the strange environment, worked his way up on the ships, and finally qualified to obtain the ticket of a Master Mariner, to command foreign-going merchant vessels all over the world. His wife, Nina, at a much later stage in life, accompanied him on many of his voyages. As she relates these assorted, engrossing marine experiences, recalling the delightful and unusual episodes of the temperamental seas, simultaneously she also ruminates over Krishan's fight and his losing battle to lung cancer.
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The Master Mariner
Language: english
Author: Nina Sood
Publisher: Stellar Publishers Pvt Ltd
Edition: Kindle
ISBN: 978-93-82035-08-4
Format: EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 356
Description: Sailors have a knack of 'spinning yarns' about their sea voyages that carry them across the global shores. On a dark night bereft of moonlight, the creaking and weird noises emitted by the ship's movements, combined with the sounds of the waves hitting the sides of the vessel, evoke scary memories of ship captains murdered at sea and ghostly apparitions. Life on a cargo merchant vessel is isolated and in a way secluded from the realities of daily life. All the same, there is something whimsical and ethereal about a ship, and you are transported into a terrain, which seems unreal and often personalities change, as the romantic atmosphere takes over encouraging one to leave inhibitions safely ashore.
The central figure, Krishan Sood, joined the merchant navy at the tender age of fourteen as a lowly cadet during the early 1940s. It was a time when ships were manned by British officers who spoke with accents alien to him, as was the diet on the ships consisting of roast meat oozing with blood and boiled, bland vegetables. He cheerfully adjusted to the strange environment, worked his way up on the ships, and finally qualified to obtain the ticket of a Master Mariner, to command foreign-going merchant vessels all over the world.
His wife, Nina, at a much later stage in life, accompanied him on many of his voyages. As she relates these assorted, engrossing marine experiences, recalling the delightful and unusual episodes of the temperamental seas, simultaneously she also ruminates over Krishan's fight and his losing battle to lung cancer.
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