The Mariner
2017
First Published
3.86
Average Rating
128
Number of Pages
In The Mariner Taleb Alrefai turns a spotlight on Kuwait's pearl-fishing history in an enthralling fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, when the country's famous dhow shipmaster Captain Al-Najdi is lost at sea in a treacherous storm. In between fishing for seabream with two friends, the retired mariner looks back on how the sea has been calling him since childhood, on the punishing work of pearl-divers, and how he became a captain at 14.
Avg Rating
3.86
Number of Ratings
91
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