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Chasing Conrad - A Tale of the Sea and a Glimpse into the Abyss (Paperback)
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Chasing Conrad - A Tale of the Sea and a Glimpse into the Abyss (Paperback)
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Loot Price R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
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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 by his
description of a night watch in the Indian Ocean: alone on the
bridge wing in the warm tropical night, I heard the wind sing
through the stays as an Aeolian harp and I felt anointed by my good
fortune. His descriptions of jaunts in forgotten parts of the world
are strikingly expressed and there is added poignancy from the
charting of Hall's struggle against decline into alcohol abuse,
expressed in a way that is in turn both sad and shocking: I ordered
another cold beer and lit another cigarette, then sat with the
ghost of my past dreams while the afternoon died around us and we
surveyed the wreckage of all my hopes. This is an important work
that captures an age now vanished, written in a style too rarely
encountered.
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