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The story te l Is of the Liberty ship John Maso n delivering 8,000 tons of guns and ammunition to the Russians on the dreaded Murmansk run . It is fi ction based on fac t , and l suspect that the author was the book's ordinary seaman, Keith . Although as maritime hi story the saga would have greater impact were it not fi ctionalized , thi s book does say it all . As one who li ved and sailed in the same kind of ship during those years, I strongly recommend this book--especially to those who didn 't. F RAN K F. FARRAR
Captain Farrar' sown stories of seafaring in the years befor e and during World War II will be published this year by Sea History Press . Two of these appeared originally in SEA HISTORY.
The English Channel , Nigel Calder (Viking-Penguin , New York ; Penguin Books, Harmondsworth , UK , 1986, 373pp, illus, $22. 50hb) Calder, an Engli sh physici st and science writer, is a man happy in hi s workand he positi vely revels in the descriptions of geological change , na val battles , fi sheries and seaborne trades which shaped the natural and cultural hi story of that remarkable tidal sluiceway, the Engli sh Channel (or the Sleeve , as the French and Spani sh call it. ) Hi s vehicle literally is the small ketch that he and his wife sail along both coasts of the Channel. '' A time machine that lets us share the experiences of a hundred generations of seafa rers,' ' he calls hi s boatfa ir enough ! His frame of reference embraces Caesar ' s opinion of the superior boats of the Veneti (the Celtic tribe that ruled the Breton shore when the conquering Roman arri ved), and the origins of the ancient trade which brought Mediterranean wines to England before the Roman legions came on the scene , cutting across the neck of Brittany by means of the Rance Ri ver (whose tides are used today to generate fantastic quantities of cheap electricity) , hopping across the Channel and then fo ll owing sleepy streams into the interior of England. It reac hes out to include the soci al organizati on of the present-day Bretons as they rall y, vill age by vill age , to protest oil spill age fro m a wrecked tanker on their shore.The ul timate product of all the fi ghts, sea traffics and mucking about in the Channel over the past three milleni a may be, Calder suggests, the evolution and dispersion fro m the chops of the Channel right aro und the world of the Engli sh language- a complex and difficult tongue embodying elements fro m Celts, RoSEA HISTORY , SUMM ER 1987