”We were on one of the technologically most advanced places on earth but the guys in grease-smeared brown sweat shirts and floatcoats, draped with heavy brown chains, looked like they were ready to face the burning oil poured on them from the walls of an impregnable castle. The combination of medieval (chains) and sci-fi (cranials and dark visors) didn”t quite cover it though; there was also an element of the biker gang about them. All things considered, theirs was one of the toughest, roughest looks going. No wonder they stood there, lounging with the grace of heavy gun-slingers about to sway into the saloon.” In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream: spending time on an aircraft carrier. Geoff ”s stay on the USS George Bush – on active service in the Arabian Gulf – proved even more intense, memorable – and frequently hilarious – than he could ever have hoped. The warship become a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life: Religion, drugs, chauvinism, farting, gyms, steaks, prayer, parental death, relationships and how to have a beach party with 5000 people on a giant floating hunk of steel. Piercingly perceptive and gloriously funny, this is a unique book about work, war and entering other worlds.
Geoff Dyer
Another Great Day at Sea [EPUB ebook]
Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
Another Great Day at Sea [EPUB ebook]
Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush
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Format EPUB ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781782113355 ● Publisher Canongate Books ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3121596 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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