Master Mariner

From his early days as a cadet on the training ship Worcester, Captain Rentell's forty year career has spanned the world's oceans and a huge variety of seagoing experience. He served in freighters and liners, as the navigator of a hovercraft, as a channel pilot, and as First officer of the QE2 during the Falklands War of 1982 - and more recently he has commanded a succession of cruise ships. voyages to the iceberg-strewn seas of Antarctica and Greenland, a collision in the Far East and even an onboard murder feature in this and informative memoir by a distinguished seaman. PB 368pp