All at sea
By: Jack Harker
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Auckland, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Naval historians; Biography; Sailors
Description: All At Sea is the fascinating life-story of Jack Harker, a New Zealander whose adventures include a naval career in World War II and later joining a Greenpeace protest fleet. Jack gives an honest, unsentimental account of his many exploits, including both his triumphs and his shortcomings, and provides plenty of amusing anecdotes along the way. Beginning with losing his mother in the 1918 flue epidemic, Jack goes on to tell of surviving an alcoholic stepmother and his lively childhood, getting into and out of trouble. As a young man, he signed on as a trainee radio operator with the New Zealand Navy, and later saw active service.
Notes: Cover subtitle: War & peace and other skirmishes.