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Bertram's logbook

From the Russian disco to the US megaliner

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Jörg Bertram has read the book "The Crusaders" by Wladimir Kaminer - his insider tip for reading on the high seas.


The best thing about a long day at sea?
For me, it's the completely undisturbed hours on the balcony of my own cabin - a glass of wine in one hand and a good book in the other. The last time I spent "24 hours at sea", I was particularly taken with a South African Chablis and the latest work by "Russendisko" author Wladimir Kaminer. In "The Crusaders", he describes such a balcony day as follows: "The ocean resembles a desert, a barren landscape that consists of water instead of sand. If you look out over the sea to the horizon for a long time, you get the feeling that our planet is a pot filled to the brim with water. Every evening, the sun falls into it like a raw yellow egg and emerges from the salt water as a pale boiled moon. My grandmother always told me that it was best to boil fresh eggs in salty water so that they were easier to peel. As a child, I thought this was a superstition. Today I know my grandma was right. My wife and I would sit on the balcony every evening in the hope of perhaps seeing another ship, an island or some dolphins. But there was nothing. Only the waves foamed past us at the same distance, each time eight small ones and one big one ..."

Seafaring poetry in a chatty tone - simply wonderful!
And sometimes also bitterly angry, super funny or a little wacky. On 218 pages, the Russian-born author describes how he crossed the Atlantic on a US megaliner or cruised the Mediterranean, the Baltic and the Caribbean with AIDA. "You collect as many stories in two weeks on a cruise as you don't in months on dry land," Wladimir Kaminer once said. He is right! If you still don't believe it, or are simply looking for the perfect on-board read, you should definitely take note of "The Crusaders"!


Published by Wunderraum-Verlag
www.randomhouse.de.

Also available as an audio book
- but that would be a shame because you can no longer listen to the sound of the waves ...


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