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From a writer "whose genre-jumping refusal to be pinned down [makes him] an exemplar in our time" (NPR), a fresh audiobook that confirms his capacity to astound listeners. As a kid Geoff Dyer put in long hours making and blotchily painting model fighter planes. So the adult Dyer jumped at the opportunity of a residency aboard an airplane carrier. Another Great Trip to Sea chronicles Dyer's encounters on the USS George H.W. Bush as he navigates the regimens and protocols of "carrier-world," from the complex choreography of the flight deck through kilometers of walkways and hatches to kitchens offering dishes for a staff of 5,000 to the deafening complexness of catapult and arresting items. Meeting the Captain, the F-18 pilots and the dentists, experiencing from a man-overboard alert to the Metal Beach Get together, Dyer guides us through the most AIE (acronym rigorous environment) imaginable. A lanky Englishman (could he really be both the tallest and the oldest person on the dispatch?) in a deeply American world, with its constant exhortations to boost, to do better, Dyer brilliantly records the daily life up to speed the ship, exposing it to be always a prism for understanding a population where willpower and conformity, commitment and optimism, become types of self-expression. In the process it becomes clear why Geoff Dyer has been greatly praised among the most original - and funniest - voices in books. Another Great Trip to Sea is the definitive work of publisher whose works defy classification.
