Seventeen Seas

Is there really a stowaway in the lifeboats? And what’s the truth about Germans and deckchairs? On a cruise ship full of passengers from different countries there’s got to be plenty of fun.
This cruise book follows a voyage through 10 countries, 15 ports, across 17 seas, for 46 days.
Seventeen Seas is a travel-book with a difference. Call it fiction or creative non-fiction, it’s a travel diary, travel memoir, and a cruise journal all in one - a book about a particular world cruise but more generally about life aboard ships, cruise passengers, and the cruising attitude.

Bronwyn Elsmore is a New Zealand writer who has written over a wide range of genres, fiction and non-fiction, and is the author of a large number of published works - books, short stories, articles, and more; with plays staged in New Zealand theatres. She has won several short story competitions, playwriting competitions, and earned other writing awards. She has a Ph.D. from Victoria University of Wellington and has also written academic works. She lives in Auckland, where she is a full-time writer, now preferring to write fiction and plays. See www.flaxroots.com