Yet being someone other
“Yet Being Someone Otheris undoubtedly the most unusual and unplaceable of all the dozen or more books Sir Laurens has written. Like most of them it is heavily autobiographical; but as one would expect from Sir Laurens, it is also much more than that - a kind of prolonged meditation on the part played in his life and that of the post-Renaissance modern world by ships and the sea.” – Christopher Booker,The TimesFrom the Trade Paperback edition.--This text refers to an alternateHardcoveredition.