At The Captain Table Life on a Luxury Liner Single eBook Hugh Thomson
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Hugh Thomson had always wanted to travel right around the planet. He just never had the money. Until he realised he could do it on the world’s most expensive luxury cruise.
Mischievous and entertaining, this is the first book to be written about a new phenomenon – the strange and unreported world of small luxury cruise ships, so exclusive that if you need to ask how much they cost, you probably can't afford them.
So don’t act like the Cruise Queen Bee who, when she received her invitation to the Captain’s table, wrote back giving her apologies and explaining, ‘I cannot accept your invitation as, on principle, I never eat with the staff.’ Buy the book and take your place as Hugh serves up tales that are clear-sighted about the rich and observant of the new world opening up on our horizons, powered by a supercharged 32,000 ton luxury liner, a microcosm of 21st-century life, with its superb engineering that almost, but not quite, overcomes all the indignities the natural world can throw at it.
Hugh’s previous books have been acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic – ‘Everywhere Thomson goes, he finds good stories to tell’ New York Times Book Review – and this new book will delight his many fans.
At The Captain Table Life on a Luxury Liner Single eBook Hugh Thomson
An easy and enjoyable read. Basically, a memoir from a professional writer hired to work for a luxury small cruiser to entertain and enlighten the top one percent of the super wealthy population. I am certain that his experience as a working stiff on a cruise ship was far different from most of the other employees due to his "celebrity speaker" employee status. I envied his excursions and experience of wonderful food and cocktails. I gained weight just reading about food. I am jealous of the author for getting the opportunity to have this experience, especially to be able to include his children....I would snap up the opportunity in a flash.Product details
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At The Captain Table Life on a Luxury Liner Single eBook Hugh Thomson Reviews
An entertaining tale of the good & bad of a long luxury cruise. Mostly good for the author, since he was paid to take it in return for lectures about the art of writing. Learned about some of the ports as well as interesting characters on the ship.
If you are looking for the dirt on cruise ships add this to your list, but only fro the perspective of where do the ultra wealthy cruise as this is different to your mass occupancy short cruise party boats. This book provided an insight into the ultra wealthy and how they experienced cruising, particularly from someone that was not crew, and not a guest, but someone in between. Their story is an interesting one of time at sea and exotic destinations. Worth the read.
This short book is for those searching for light entertainment as well as an insight into the "back office" of luxury cruise liners.
How I envy Hugh Thomas and his lengthy cruise around the world - all told; and I'm sure I'm not the only one. We get a glimpse of his ports of call and a frank lowdown of what goes on behind the scenes on these types of boats as well as very candid remarks about the punters taking them.
A bit self-indulgent at times, Thomas is a fluid writer who keeps you turning the pages.
A person has to have some serious class standing to turn down the Much sought after captain'a table as beneath her. This single is a witty and nuanced memoir of the author's stint as a guest lecturer on an exclusive ship circling the globe. He has that dream job with few duties and paid transit. There is plenty of my favorite rich people porn with all the details of a fabulously privileged life on the ship. Several of his fellow travelers are fleshed out by their named characteristics, and you will remember them from every group you have joined. He doesn't ignore the nearly slave class working on the ship to provide this pampering. It is a two sided issue in that many of the staff earns greater wages than they could elsewhere, but the wages are still on the scandalous side. And he also provides some great tips on getting the most out of a city in one day. I really enjoyed the book.
I'm not sure why I read the book all the way through, maybe I still feel an obligation to an author. This is a trite text about luxurious life on a year long cruise that has bland stories, flat characters, and no zing. The author tells us his experiences on a year long cruise. He does encounter some unique personalities, does have some insights on the whole business of a year-long cruise, but doesn't really accomplish anything. There are a couple of places where I thought he was going to take off and run with an idea...but it just never really gets beyond the lido deck. The author's strengths are his competencies to write and keep the read on task. Each of the characters sticks well with the reader, but there is a limitation to their development. At the end of the book I'm still not sure if he ever sat at the Captain's Table.
I'm afraid my feeble mind couldn't keep up with the writer's quite extensive vocabulary, and quite often I had to look up the meaning of words. At times this became tedious, and I may have lost the beauty of the story in my fervor to understand what was going on behind all those words. For someone more learned that myself this would be a good story.
At the same time I thought the author covered a great deal of good and enjoyable information, and I related to many of the ports of call and excursions, having sailed around the world myself. Therefore, I felt a camaraderie with the author, and several times I even managed to catch his humor.
Still, I could have seen five stars, were it not for that wretched short ending, which, like a real life horror movie, crept up unannounced and slapped me from a peaceful state of tranquility into the harsh reality of a crime scene.
I felt that this was especially out of balance with the rest of the book, as this last chapter seem to be devoted to his girlfriend, who had just come on board to end the trip with him, and with whom he admitted he was in love with. Artistic license I suppose.
I forced myself to finish this book in case it improved; it did not. While it serves as an excellent travel log for him and the family who joined him on board, it provides very little insight into life on a luxury liner. Much more time is spent on the history of the ports visited and of other authors and their seafaring tales. I would like to have heard more about the guests and crew he encountered - even if painted in broad strokes to avoid identification. Mr. Thomson seems to miss these opportunities. An exploration of the caste system in India is a concept that screams to be related back to the discrepancies among the passengers and crew but it is fumbled, at best.
An easy and enjoyable read. Basically, a memoir from a professional writer hired to work for a luxury small cruiser to entertain and enlighten the top one percent of the super wealthy population. I am certain that his experience as a working stiff on a cruise ship was far different from most of the other employees due to his "celebrity speaker" employee status. I envied his excursions and experience of wonderful food and cocktails. I gained weight just reading about food. I am jealous of the author for getting the opportunity to have this experience, especially to be able to include his children....I would snap up the opportunity in a flash.
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