{"product_id":"big-ships-like-us-a-year-on-a-great-lakes-freighter","title":"Big Ships Like Us: A Year on a Great Lakes Freighter","description":"\u003cp\u003eMay 25, 2027\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Tabone \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I am still a collector of sorts. A miner of memories and moments like this one—where steering the ship through the American Narrows, I looked up at the mansions that line the shore and thought of those wealthy folks up there on their opulent Italian sofas, sipping Manhattans and martinis and watching through broad bay windows the big ships. Big ships like us passing by.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicholas Tabone sails the Great Lakes as a wheelsman aboard the \u003cem\u003eManitoulin\u003c\/em\u003e. He steers the massive freighter between ports, some booming, some in decay, picking up and dropping off grain, stone, coal, iron ore, and salt, from Duluth to Port-Cartier, Quebec. In his free time, he runs, back and forth, on the deck. He watches the seabirds who hitch a ride on the vessel. He drinks endless cups of Yorkshire Gold tea. Mostly he reads. And he thinks—about the nature of his life and his work, lost loved ones, why fishermen wear camo. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTabone offers us the first book-length glimpse into the life of a modern-day sailor on the Great Lakes, told with a poet’s sensitivity and an artist’s eye for beauty. His prose echoes life on a Great Lakes freighter—the same journeys, back and forth—offering stunning new insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor those who are curious about and fascinated by ships, the Great Lakes, and startlingly original perspectives on the nature of work: welcome aboard. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e__\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNicholas Tabone \u003c\/strong\u003ehas worked as a wheelsman for ten years.  Ashore he divides his time between Toronto, the UK, and Malta  This is his first book.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"css-13whmom\"\u003eISBN: 9781540270429 | 5x7\" | 230 pages | paperback \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50727304626274,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2361\/8717\/files\/BSLUcopy.jpg?v=1792503702","url":"https:\/\/beltpublishing.com\/products\/big-ships-like-us-a-year-on-a-great-lakes-freighter","provider":"Belt Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}