A Sailor on Horseback

About the Book

A Sailor on Horseback is a memoir of a life spent on and around the sea. Beginning with a recollection of rural life in pre-war England, with World War 2 seen through the eyes of a schoolboy during the ‘Occupation’, the book spans eighty years and all the world’s oceans. The many strands of the memoir include nautical nostalgia, recalling seafaring in the immediate post-war era before the decline of the former colonial powers and the traditional shipping companies – trading around the Indian Ocean coasts, and in Burmese waters before the military government became established – Iran before Mossadeq and after – Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf in boom times and war times – happy days ashore and afloat in Australia, Canada, Mexico and the Seychelles – adventurous and exciting times working for the world’s richest man – yachting deluxe on a superyacht, meeting many remarkable people in some beautiful places – good and not so good times in the shipping industry around the world.

About the Author

Robert T. Bush Robert Thomas Bush was born and brought up in rural Berkshire, one of the Home Counties of England. At seventeen he went to sea, passing an examination for a Certificate of Competency as Master of a Foreign-Going Steamship at the age of twenty-seven. He remained at sea, sailing under six flags on a variety of ships, some very small and others very big, for some twenty-five years. Ashore he worked in mainly maritime jobs in the Middle East, Australia, Canada, Mexico, England and the United States. In New York City he was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences, and he taught English as a foreign language to immigrants in New Jersey. A Fellow of the Nautical Institute, he lectures on maritime subjects in his retirement at the Seamen’s Church Institute in Houston, Texas.