Policing, Port Security and Crime Control: An Ethnography of the Port Securityscape
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Ports are the vital hubs of the maritime transport industry, and crucial to the flow of global...
The Marine Professional
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Published 12 times a year, The Marine Professional is the leading technical magazine for the...
Marine Insurance Law
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Marine Insurance Law, Second Edition introduces and clearly explains all topics covered in courses...
Three Greenwich Built Ships
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Greenwich, the nautical centre of the world was also once part of the area of Southbank in London,...
Kent: North East and East
Nikolaus Pevsner and John Newman
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The exceptionally rich architecture of eastern Kent is covered by this fully revised, updated, and...
Kaz (232 KP) rated 'Master and Commander' in Books
May 15, 2019
At first, I found this extremely difficult to get into. After about 100 pages I actually put this book down, because I found the maritime vocabulary, impossible to follow. However, I decided to pick it back up again and actually, when the character Stephen Maturin, the ship's doctor, comes into the story, I found that, because he was a novice with ships, he was asking questions about the different mechanisms etc of the ship and that helped me to feel that I had some idea of what it was all about.
I also found some of the battle scene a little bit static and difficult to visualize.
Even though this was a challenging book, I really like the relationship between Stephen and Jack Aubrey, the ship's captain. The writing was very humorous at times and I also liked how some of this book featured places in the Mediterranean that I'm really familiar with.
Being the first in the series, I'm sure as the novels progress, I might find this easier to get into. I won't be rushing out to read any more at the moment, I think you need to be in the right mood to read them. However, I may read more of this series in the future.
My Rating ***
Sons of Sindbad
Alan Villiers, William Facey, Yacoub Al-Hijji and Grace Pundyk
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Alan Villiers (1903-82), the Australian sailor and maritime historian, first made a name for himself...