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Ernest K. Gann
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Pages: 336 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1574090925
Pub: Sheridan House
Pub date: 2003-12-18
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 306926
Reader Reviews:
The story of Ernest K. Gann's ships (0/0 people found this helpful)
First published in 1968, 'Song of the Sirens' remains a maritime classic and an exceptionally enjoyable read today.
If a man, over his lifetime, has seventeen lovers and writes a book about them, then it is a work of obsession, passion and of no interest to anyone except his current lover. Unless the lovers are the seventeen 'Sirens', vessels ranging from the basic raft 'Butterfly' to the 117-ton brigantine Albatros, that become the lifelong passions of Ernest K.Gann, in which case they become a wonderfully crafted book of sailing and mans relationship with the sea.
As with Gann's other books, a rich web is woven of life, love, fate and consequence, that only adds to the salty wind blown blend of the 'Sirens' and their seductive gifts and rejections.
Highly recommended to any reader with an interest in the sea and all that sails on it.
With kindest regards
B'Booker
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