Eight Bells and Top Masts: Diaries from a Tramp Steamer
Eight Bells and Top Masts: Diaries from a Tramp Steamer
Christopher Lee
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The time is the late 1950s. It is an end of an era. The end of the trade in which an old converted coal-burning ship with a Chinese crew and a handful of British officers would tramp from port to port, picking up cargo where it could, never knowing where it, and they, would be heading next.
The time is the late 1950s. It is an end of an era. The end of the trade in which an old converted coal-burning ship with a Chinese crew and a handful of British officers would tramp from port to port, picking up cargo where it could, never knowing where it, and they, would be heading next.
Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee is a British writer, historian and broadcaster, best-known for writing the radio documentary series This Sceptred Isle for the BBC, which recounts the history of Britain from the...
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