Chasing Conrad: A Tale of the Sea and a Glimpse Into the Abyss

by Simon J. Hall

Simon Hall's second book is set in the mid-1970s during the closing years of the golden age of British shipping, when cargo carriage at sea saw radical change and the romance of being at sea in old-style cargo ships came to an end. Hall's account is of five years during which he worked as a junior officer in the Far East and South Pacific.

This is no ordinary memoir; the prose is vividly expressed, often shocking, sometimes elegiac as evidenced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849951551
• ISBN13: 9781849951555
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Whittles
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.3"