From Baird Maritime
Our very own Dick Lee has created this very first rate novel of coming of age at sea.
Set onboard a small and scruffy naval vessel in the tropics the author has captured beautifully the realities of life aboard the ships and boats of the Australian Naval Reserve.
As the former commanding officer of a number of such surplus hand-me-down vessels, the author knows them and the characters of their ships' companies very well.
Backgrounded against a typically politically inspired voyage from Singapore to Brisbane aboard a tiny, slow and practically unarmed ship, this is a fine book of personalities, adventure, endurance and, above all, personal development.
Having himself served, fortunately briefly, aboard even more hopelessly inadequate craft than the novel's 'HMAS Gunnedah", this delightful little book brought memories flooding back to your reviewer.
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