Can I read Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush on EtoBox?

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush by Dyer, Geoff, author, Steele-Perkins, Chris, illustrator is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush about?

We were on one of the technologically most advanced places on earth but the guys in grease-smeared brown sweat shirts and floatcoats, draped with heavy brown chains, looked like they were ready to face the burning oil poured on them from the walls of an impregnable castle. The combination of medieval (chains) and sci-fi (cranials and dark visors) didn't quite cover it though; there was also an element of the biker gang about them. All things considered, theirs was one of the toughest, roughest looks going. No wonder they stood there, lounging with the grace of heavy gun-slingers about to sway into the saloon.'In November 2011, Geoff Dyer fulfilled a childhood dream: spending time on an aircraft carrier. Geoff's stay on the USS George Bush - on active service in the Arabian Gulf - proved even more intense, memorable - and frequently hilarious - than he could ever have hoped. The warship become a microcosm for a stocktaking of modern Western life: Religion, drugs, chauvinism, farting, gyms, steaks, prayer, parental death, relationships and how to have a beach party with 5000 people on a giant floating hunk of steel. Piercingly perceptive and gloriously funny, this is a unique book ab

Author

Dyer, Geoff, author, Steele-Perkins, Chris, illustrator

Publisher

Edinburgh : Canongate

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781782113362

Subjects

Engineering, Science, Military

Rating

3.8 / 5 (419 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14