摘要: |
Cabin Fever is a recent history book. It chronicles the situation onboard cruise ship Zaandam during the first outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 when ports in Chile, Ecuador, and the United States refused to let the ill-fated ship in. Based on first-hand accounts, authors Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin, have put down on paper what occurred onboard when the world - and eventually the ship itself -went into lockdown. The result is a gripping, fast-paced read weaved into an easy to follow narrative, crucial considering all the different threads that needed connecting and especially as the stories in the book are those of real people. While crew and passengers were happy to share their accounts, they "gave the cruise lines and their executives ample opportunity to comment on material events, without success," the authors said. |