Description
Just in a short while in the company of men like Kevin Levien reveals a host of stories of a bye-gone age of the sea – before the days of containerisation, roll-on/roll-off ships and GPS navigation.
A host of young men, some still in their mid teens, answered the call of the sea and joined the tribal groups that lived by the rule of shipping companies and the seamen’s unions
Whether it was the east-coasters, with their tidy uniforms and white caps, the scruffier colliers who faced being stranded outside the notorious Grey River bar until the tobacco and even water ran out, the green-hullers who crewed decrepit old Liberty ships leftover from the War, of the small-boat sailors who manned the myriad of ferries, tugs and work boats around harbours of New Zealand, these men formed a community of the sea that binds them together fifty years on.
“On the Corner” paints a word-picture of an era and a lifestyle, populated by characters larger than life that is gone forever. Today’s politically-correct world, dominated by technology, communications and high-speed travel seems almost insipid by comparison
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