Review: Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2012
Strange as it may seem if you've never heard of it, many container ship companies (think of those big boxes you'll sometimes see on top of a flat railroad car) also have room for a limited number of passengers. Among other things, traveling this way is a non-airplane alternative when, due to seasonal or route considerations, a conventional cruise ship or other form of transportation wouldn't be an option. Hired to write a guidebook for passengers of a set of ships that traveled the same route, the author took the trip as research, writing as she went. This book is about what that experience was like.I enjoy travel narratives of all kinds. This was one of the more unique I've read, mainly because the method of travel was so unconventional. The ports of call were often not the normal tourist haunts. Everything about Staal's experience was much different than the typical travel narrative. Although the author is a native of the Netherlands, she has lived for an extended period in the UK. I never felt that language was an issue; however, I did mark down by one star for exceeding my somewhat strict threshold for typos and grammar errors.**Originally written for "Books and Pals" book blog. May have received a free review copy. **