Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day

This book is on the List Of Best Travel Books 2010!

Deadly pirate attacks and a near collision with an oil tanker are just two of the dangers faced by the crews of today’s container ships. Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day, is the story of life on the high seas, where real adventures still exist.

The author recounts her adventures on the container ship ‘MV Serenity River’ in this entertaining narrative travelogue. An unusual trip in a world that is usually hidden from view, and where working and living can become a struggle just because of the constant changing of the clocks. However, lifelong friendships are forged and dolphins play around the ship to the entertainment of everyone on board.

But what happens when a hurricane force wind suddenly comes up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and starts tossing the ship about like mad?

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I can safely say that I was very lucky to be able work on two different container ships. During two three-month round trips, I wrote a guidebook for the passengers to acquaint them with the way of life on board and the ports we visited. Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day, is not that guidebook. Instead it is an account of my time on one of those ships, the MV Serenity River. My three months onboard the Serenity are the main story of the book, which is interspersed by short flashbacks relating things that happened on board the other ship.

This book is the first of my books to have been translated in Dutch. To find out more about this translation please visit the (Dutch) pages Tussen containers en tijdzones.

This book has come out as paperback and ebook.
For those of you interested in buying this or any of my other books, please visit the website of FTK Publishing York for more information. (Clicking this link will open a new window.)

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