Because the title of this book denotes waterways of Russia, it is inherent that the text envelopes around that theme. Within the story related, transverse trajectories of some of the extensive waterways of Russia, including rivers, reservoirs, canals, and lakes, are passed over by the river cruise-boat named Bauman. Some included are Volga, Rybinsk, Sheksna, Kouzha, and Svir Rivers, as well as Rybinsk Reservoir, Moscow-Volga Canal, White Lake, Onega Lake, and Lake Ladoga, all within the confines of Russia. The cruise on the Bauman enlightened members with much of the geography of Russia's waterways, bringing them into close proximity with towns, monasteries, churches and other important sights along the way, encouraging meandering and contemplation. Preceding the water cruise Moscow City was explored and near the end of the cruise Helsinki, Finland. It all made for an exciting and rewarding journey. This book goes into detail on many of the sights explored, especially the exciting towns, churches, and waterways that were explored. However, the book should be especially rewarding to anyone interested in the city of Helsinki, Moscow and St. Petersburg, where special emphases has been placed.

A description of a Grecian and Turkey land tour is presented in this book, encompassing cities and places circumvented by the Aegean Sea. The cities, towns and places were all reached by a combination of tour bus and cruise ship. The adventure begins in Athens, Greece, and crosses Central Greece reaching Delphi. From there it continues down into southwestern Greece into the town of Nafpaktos, on the Corinthian Strait. Ferrying across the strait into Peloponnese, the city of Nafplio is visited along with the Mycenae and Epidaurus ruins. From here the adventure retracts back to Athens by crossing over the Corinthian Canal. Here, mode of travel is switched from bus to cruise ship, Ocean Misty. The Grecian visit is continued when Santorini, Delos, and Mykonos Islands were all visited. Next the island of Rhodes, bordering the bottom of the Aegean Sea was reached. After this, Ephesus, Turkey, was approached by ship, visited, and from there the Ocean Misty was en route to the Dardanelles, the strait leading into the Sea of Marmara, thereby soon reaching Istanbul, Turkey, which was the adventure's highlight, including a visit to the Blue Mosque and a cruise up the Bosphorus to the Black Sea. The area is well explored in the writings of this book, a pleasure to read about these countries around the Aegean Sea.

This book was written from a sailor's journal taken during his cruise on the Horace A, Bass APD 124 during the Korean War. The Bass was a high speed ship rigged to accommodate Royal Marines and Underwater Demolition Teams (Frogmen) and it did numerous reconnaissance raids on both coasts of North Korea. During this action in 1952 and eleven prisoners were taken. The raiding encompassed knocking out railroad sections and railroad bridges. The Horace A. Bass APD was just one of the many ships operating in Korea during that war. The book is a true story told by one of the crew members who served on the Bass as a radar operator. He kept a journal then which supported the book greatly.