Philip Marsden

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After two voyages on Maersk containers, Horatio Clare wrote Down to the Sea in Ships — an extraordinary and haunting account of ocean-borne men and machines

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  • Down to the Sea in Ships

    Horatio Clare

    Chatto, pp. 278

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