The Best of Days: A memoir of the sea (Memoirs of the Sea, #1)

Here is a memoir of journeys into deep
waters on merchant ships. There are
tranquil tropical harbours and violent
storms far from shore. We are in the
wireless room when ships are calling for
help. The story begins with humble
origins on the coast of County Durham
surrounded by family still coming to
terms with the Great War. The author's
father went to war on horseback, yet in
this story we are on the brink of the
modern world. The writer was fortunate
to join the Merchant Navy in the 1950s,
and know its most glorious days. Harry
Nicholson now lives near Whitby, on
the Yorkshire coast. His other books are
Tom Fleck, a Tudor novel of Cleveland
and Flodden, and its sequel The Black
Caravel. His collected poetry is suitably
titled, Wandering About.