The Beckoning Sea

Stories from My Life at Sea and Elsewhere

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Bernhard Abrahamsson ISBN: 9781440102660
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: October 28, 2008
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Bernhard Abrahamsson
ISBN: 9781440102660
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: October 28, 2008
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Looking back, author Bernhard J. Abrahamsson cannot say exactly why, at age fourteen, he chose a seafaring life. Perhaps, the choice was less the result of deliberate design and pursuit than of circumstances that led him in that direction. In The Beckoning Sea, Abrahamsson, a native of Sweden, shares the short stories and vignettes from a youth spent dreaming of seeing the world. This memoir narrates his experiences when he joined the Swedish Merchant Marine and sailed all over the world on Swedish and Israeli merchant ships through the 1950s. He passed the sea captains exam in 1953 and was licensed as a captain in 1958, reaching the rank of commander in the Swedish Naval Reserve before becoming a US citizen. Funny and sad events mesh to form a picture of seafaring as it once wasof a lifestyle that no longer exists. The Beckoning Sea offers stories of friendship, loss and madness at sea, the forces of nature, and life in the rough ports of the Baltic coal trade immediately after World War II. A tale of a boys journey to adulthood, The Beckoning Sea also contains a collection of memories and often comical stories from Abrahamssons own second chapterhis life after leaving the sea and planting his feet on firm ground.

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Looking back, author Bernhard J. Abrahamsson cannot say exactly why, at age fourteen, he chose a seafaring life. Perhaps, the choice was less the result of deliberate design and pursuit than of circumstances that led him in that direction. In The Beckoning Sea, Abrahamsson, a native of Sweden, shares the short stories and vignettes from a youth spent dreaming of seeing the world. This memoir narrates his experiences when he joined the Swedish Merchant Marine and sailed all over the world on Swedish and Israeli merchant ships through the 1950s. He passed the sea captains exam in 1953 and was licensed as a captain in 1958, reaching the rank of commander in the Swedish Naval Reserve before becoming a US citizen. Funny and sad events mesh to form a picture of seafaring as it once wasof a lifestyle that no longer exists. The Beckoning Sea offers stories of friendship, loss and madness at sea, the forces of nature, and life in the rough ports of the Baltic coal trade immediately after World War II. A tale of a boys journey to adulthood, The Beckoning Sea also contains a collection of memories and often comical stories from Abrahamssons own second chapterhis life after leaving the sea and planting his feet on firm ground.

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