Another Pinch of Salt (A Seafaring Baptism and Thereafter) - Softcover

Smith, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502877236 ISBN 13: 9781502877239

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

'Another Pinch of Salt' continues and concludes the adventures of Steve Chapman as he seeks a means of returning to New Zealand and the South Island girl he adores. He originally hopes to work his passage, or failing that gain a berth on the New Zealand Government's 'Assisted Passage' Scheme. However, upon discovering that he has to pay his own way, he sets out to earn the price of his ticket. But, as soon becomes clear, earning money and saving it are two different things, especially when his ship is calling at such exotic ports as Rio de Janeiro and vibrant, pulsating Buenos Aires.

About this title

About the Author

Terry Smith (his real name) was born and raised in the Bedfordshire market town of Biggleswade. His first love has always been railways but thanks to some superb holidays on the Hampshire coast he developed an early interest in shipping, especially merchant shipping. It should come as no surprise, then, that in addition to becoming a signal-box telegraph lad (his first occupation upon leaving school at Easter 1959)and later as a railway signalman, he also served as a merchant seaman. After a period of schooling at the training ship, 'Vindicatrix', he went on to serve with the Port Line and the Blue Star Line, both front-line British shipping companies that sadly no longer exist. His travels took him to Australia and New Zealand and various ports 'en route' - including a circumnavigation - to several countries on the east coast of South America; to Poland via the Kiel Canal when the nation was still a hard-line communist state; to numerous British and Continental ports, and to the Atlantic islands before they were developed as holiday destinations. Now retired, other occupations have included factory hand, brewery operative, agricultural worker and for thirty years until Christmas 2013, mobile gent's hairdresser. He and his wife, Diana, now enjoy an active but relaxing retirement at Falmouth in Cornwall.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502877236
• ISBN 13: 9781502877239
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208