Description
In this memoir and travelogue from his early working life, Austin Guest tells of his time as a cargo ship's Radio Officer in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was an officer on arrival aged 19, but with much to learn and to prove. Along with the excitement of new places and cultures he encountered tyrannical captains, heavy seas, unreliable equipment, distress calls, excess alcohol, onboard conflicts, chaotic misadventures, lost island paradises and the aftermath of a war zone.