الوصف
Within fourteen minutes the fatally-stricken cargo vessel 'Lycomedes' will plunge forever beneath the storm-shredded waters of the winter North Sea with fifty-four men, a limpid-eyed dog and a foul-beaked parrot aboard. Into that agonizingly brief span is packed a lifetime of turbulence and tragedy, of cowardice and courage, of pathos and humour and the dawning acceptance of coming even, incredibly, of moments of boredom and moments of exultation. You meet her crew for only a tiny fragment of their mortal lives, yet under the remorselessly escalating stresses of disaster you grow to know them to understand, and to feel for them in their peril.With experience and authority, Callison, himself a former Merchant Navy officer, vividly portrays the onset of catastrophe in such a way that you, the reader, will live though every instant while 'Lycomedes' tears herself apart beneath your feet. 'A Ship is Dying' is as stirring, as poignant, as overwhelming a sea story as has ever been recounted."Brian Callison compresses a chilling collection of marine horrors, all the more horrible because of his matter-of-fact tone. The behaviour of men under stress gives the book a powerful chemistry." NEW YORK TIMES."Make no mistake; Mr Callison can grip you ... Conrad might have liked a lot of this book." THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.