Cruise-Ships Books

If you love theNim's Island movie you definitely need to read the books! This is a follow up to Nim's adventure! My 9 yr old daughter loved the book!

I have read both Nim's Island and Nim at Sea and saw the movie version of Nim's Island.

I am a BIG fan of Wendy Orr and just loved the first book, Nim's Island. My daughter and I read it LONG before it was made into a movie. The second book, Nim at Sea, is just as good. It is funny and creative.

I don't want to give away the story for anyone who wants to read the book (and you should). The first chapter starts off with Alex and Nim being seperated which is why Nim is at "sea."

I, my daughter and my mother all enjoyed Nim at Sea and thought it a great sequel.

This book was a treat to read. The author filled her pages with reasonable circumstances to support her story and created a diverse and believable group of characters. The mystery wasn't too complicated, but enough to keep one reading to the book's satisfying end. I immediately looked for and bought all of Mary Kruger's books I could find and look forward to happy hours of more good reading by a very fine author.

The second in "Gilded Age" mysteries by Mary Krueger this is still a stand alone book. I am almost 70 and after I read it I gave it to a college student. We both enjoyed it. It concerns a passenger going overboard and the attempts to find the perpetrator.

I have purchased several copies of this book, autographed by the authored at a book signing, as gifts and the children I've given it to have truly loved it. Captain Mateboer is a statuesque gentleman and a real cruise captain on the Holland America Cruise Lines. He is very impressive in person and writes in such a way that captivates a child's imagination. It is my understanding that he is already in development for a new Peter adventure. I can't wait for the next book to come out. It will be on my list again for children this coming year.

A delightful book for even young children. Well written and illustrated. A perfect gift for "cruising grandparents" to give grandchildren.

Cyber kdz kid Sanjeev finds himself a reluctant stowaway with his kid-sister Sarita on a posh cruise ship. But, it isn't Sanjeev who's in trouble. Sarita was kidnapped. And, the kidnappers are microchip smugglers as Sanjeev quickly finds out.

But, Sanjeev needs the Cyber Kdz who are located around the world to give him a hand in pinpointing the smugglers and ... (well, you'll have to read the story.)

The neat parts are a) Sanjeev's crashing the ship's network and getting Sarita and himself booked into a first-class cabin and b) Deeder's crashing the ship's maitainance and safety servers to cause all sorts of funny confusion.

Good book

Sanjeev's sister, Sarita, has run away because she loves a man who her parents do not like. Sanj tracks her down aboard the Star of Asia, where her boyfriend is a crewman. They accidentally spend too much time aboard the ship, it starts to move! Sanj and Sarita are going on a cruise! Sanj decides to book them into a first-class room to enjoy their accidental vacation. After a more extensive search of the ship, they don't find Sarita's boyfriend. But they do find a huge smuggling ring involving over 15,000,000 dollars worth of computer chips. Can Sanj and the Kids, with their proven reputation to stop crimes, catch the crooks before the crew catches on?

This is a book that tells what life is like on small ships (fewer than 500 passengers) and it includes everything from cruise ships to barges, freighters, dive boats, sailing ships. You can search by destination and find ships that go to wonderful places that you can't go to in big ships.

This is the review that appeared in TravelWriter MarketLetter that goes to travel writers all over the world...

"The Table of Contents for this book is very reader-friendly. Under each chapter heading are all of the chapter's subheads, with page numbers, so if you want to reread the paragraph on seasickness, for example, you find it under Chapter 2, page 35, and find it quickly. The first several chapters tell the many differences between sailing on a small ship and a large one, discuss costs, things to do, places small ships can go, and the many questions the reader might have about small ships. There's a chapter on life aboard a small ship, with detailed descriptions, then one on saving money on cruises with various ploys, and a chapter on ship profiles which takes up more than half the book describing more than 200 ships. The final two chapters are about barge cruising on canals, and sailing in small romantic schooners. It's all good, juicy writing, even if your cruise is not imminent. But if you are about to take a cruise, it will save you money, prepare you, and insure that you have fun."

It's all here. If you are looking for a job in the cruise ship industry, especially if you're doing this for the first time, this concise manual appears to give you all the details. If you haven't written a resume before, this tells you how, but if you've done it in other fields, this tells you what cruise employers want to see. All cruise jobs are listed with detailed duties, licensing requirements and typical salaries. All cruise lines, as of mid 2002, with their ships, addresses, internal departments, and some points of contact are provided. US and foreign concessionaires (companies that act as middlemen in providing crews to some lines) are listed with their job specialties, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

The book isn't perfect. It could have used another round of editing for missing information (almost none), duplicate fields (a few), and some typos that were visible to someone not trying to use the information. I'd bet that there are a few bad phone numbers and street addresses as well (although I didn't actually find any). But these are real nits--overall the manual is well formatted, readable, easy to use, and apparently overwhelmingly complete.

Other books might give you the flavor of working on a cruise ship, or try to seduce you with tempting descriptions of cruise jobs. This manual appears dedicated to getting the reader first and foremost the facts and the data--the stuff needed to get a foot in the door of the cruise business.

An idealistic, somewhat solitary young man leaves a Mom shaped childhood of snowsuit wearing and germ fearing in search of his inner warrior / grandfather.
Endeavoring to seek his fortune with little more than a sketchy clue, skimpy budget, and big ideas he heads across the continent to a rugged Paradise in the process of being lost.
Blessed with an excess of beginner's luck, the kindness of singular strangers, and sheer pig-headedness, he survives darn fool adventures in the face of big weather & commercial greed with his sense of humor intact. He even matures and makes good.
If you like honesty, ideals, and individuality, if you value the epic struggle to teach the selfish why it's not smart to trash our very nice planet, if you like to have fun when you read... who could ask for more?

Now in a newly revised, updated, and expanded third edition, Alaska: The Cruise-Lover's Guide by Paul and Audrey Grescoe continues to be a simply terrific and "user friendly" supplementary resource to enjoying the best that an Alaskan cruise has to offer, from sightseeing wildlife to observing or participating in exciting sports and events. Gorgeous color photographs enhance this exceptionally practical and nicely organized travel guide written for both the casual as well as the enthusiastically active tourist or vacationer.

...Our beleaguered friend, the hotel cook from the first book, has a job as the galley cook on a small cruiser. Unfortunately for him, a delight for the observer, he makes his famed and event altering soup again!
A marvellous wordless book, packed full of action and drama to entice and concentrate the most distracted and distractable minds. Gloriously produced, beautifully illustrated and full of possibility. An ingenious devise and every bit as special as it's forerunner. A must have.

We are experienced cruisers. (About 12 times: Alaska, Scandinavia, Russia, Mediterranean, Panama, US Rivers, etc.) Douglass Ward's work always both entertains and helps. Both broad philosophies and specific details for both new and veteran travelers prove on, or very-close to, target.

Shipping and price were both excellent.