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Another great day at sea : life aboard the USS George H.W. Bush / Geoff Dyer ; with photographs by Chris Steele-Perkins.

by Dyer, Geoff.

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Pantheon Books, 2013.

George H.W. Bush (Aircraft carrier)

United States. Navy -- Sea life.

Aircraft carriers -- United States.

Naval aviation -- United States.

Sailors -- United States.

9780307911582 (hc.)

0307911586 (hc.)

190 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : colored illustrations ; 22 cm.

This book was made possible by a grant from Writers in Residence (Founder: Alain de Botton).

"USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) is the tenth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, completed in 2009 at a cost of $6.2 billion, and named for the 41st President of the United States. Author Geoff Dyer jumped at the chance of a residency aboard. Dyer's experiences on the ship as he navigates the routines and protocols of 'carrier-world,' from the elaborate choreography of the flight deck through miles of walkways and hatches to kitchens serving meals for a crew of five thousand to the deafening complexity of catapult and arresting gear. Meeting the F-18 pilots and the dentists, experiencing everything from a man-overboard alert to the Steel Beach Party, Dyer guides us through the most AIE (acronym intensive environment) imaginable. A lanky Englishman, perhaps the tallest and oldest person on the ship, in a deeply American world, Dyer records the daily routine, revealing it to be a prism for understanding a society where discipline and conformity, dedication and optimism, become forms of self-expression"--Provided by publisher.

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