A Wilder Rose: a Novel
“The ship had been built in 1913 as the SS Vaterland. But she had the misfortune to be laid up at her dock in Hoboken when Wilson took the country to war against Germany and was seized by the U.S. government for troop transport. In 1923, refurbished and restored to her prewar Edwardian and Louis XVI splendor, and sailing to the music of her own ship’s orchestra, she was once again in service, the largest passenger liner in the world.
The luxury of the Leviathan seemed strange and almost syba...ritic to me, and I found myself wandering the decks like a lost soul, unmoored and out of place. I was on my way home after a difficult three years traveling on behalf of the American Red Cross and Near East Relief. I had trekked across the postwar wreckage of Europe, through the Balkans, through Turkey, and into Armenia and Georgia and Azerbaijan. And not in luxury, either: it had been grueling travel in dangerous places where I didn’t speak the language, in unreliable vehicles, and with guides I couldn’t trust.MoreLess
The luxury of the Leviathan seemed strange and almost syba...ritic to me, and I found myself wandering the decks like a lost soul, unmoored and out of place. I was on my way home after a difficult three years traveling on behalf of the American Red Cross and Near East Relief. I had trekked across the postwar wreckage of Europe, through the Balkans, through Turkey, and into Armenia and Georgia and Azerbaijan. And not in luxury, either: it had been grueling travel in dangerous places where I didn’t speak the language, in unreliable vehicles, and with guides I couldn’t trust.MoreLess
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