You know how it is with buses wait forever and then three come along at once? Well, the same thing happened to me last year, only with books. I had just published my first. It is an ethnography about seafarers: that is to say, it is a detailed account of the life of seafarers based on observational and interview research. It was published as I was in my 14th year at the Seafarers International Research Centre studying seafarers and the wider shipping industry. The book took a long time to research, involving five voyages (on two tankers, two refrigerated ships, and a rusty bulk carrier), time spent in north Germany with unemployed transmigrant seafarers, and time in India with seafarers' wives, and it took a long time to write. It was a long time, too, from the date the manuscript was submitted to the book's appearance on the shelf.
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