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Heart of Oak
Following the account of his childhood and his early years aboard in A Steady Trade, Tristan Jones now looks back to his years below decks in the Royal Navy during World War II.
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
January 25th 1997
by Sheridan House
(first published January 1st 1984)
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Time Travel is possible! The words of Tristan Jones will put you into the middle of the Second World War! While re-writing his personal history, the author conveys the feelings, sensations, and sensibilities of war-time Britain in a down-to-earth tale of the lower decks in Britain’s darkest days.
Heart of Oak, following true to the Welsh storytelling tradition of mixing truth with fiction, is written in the first person as the true story of the author’s early years in the British Navy. Mixing re...more
Heart of Oak, following true to the Welsh storytelling tradition of mixing truth with fiction, is written in the first person as the true story of the author’s early years in the British Navy. Mixing re...more
Is there a moral in this true life account as a young 'Matelot' in the British Navy? A theme? Perhaps, or maybe it's no more than the humble offering of one man's story into that body that leads to the 'uttermost ends of the earth' in Conrad's words, that connects humankind in those of Whitman; from which Jones himself draws inspiration and companionship through his many voyages. A bottle tossed upon the sea; a companion in miniature for a sailor and literary soul.
Jul 25, 2012
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My Dad gave me this to read when I was a kid. I remember loving it. Should read it again though, don't remember much about it.
For a long time this was a hard to find book. Unlike his sailing adventures.
Tristan Jones will always be on my Mount Rushmore of authors!
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