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Title: Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic
Review: Redmond O'Hanlon lost me on this one. There are a handful of fine vignettes of daily life and duty aboard the ship in "Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic." But those few succulent morsels are seriously outdone by a ponderous, rambling narrative, dashed off late at night which he never revisits to polish up, which simply, tires you out.I was disappointed because as an armchair adventurer, this could have been the type of tale I relish. But O'Hanlon's writing here is sloppy and loose, unstructured with lots of tangents that lead to dead-ends. It was too heavy to shake off.I can't recommend this book as a book of its type. There are many other seafaring adventure tales that "tell the tale well." You might glance through this book and find the few juicy morsels but that's it.
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