Looking for the title of a fabulous book on QE2

[editor@cruisecritic]

Hi, hoping someone out there has a better memory than I do -- about a decade ago I read the most marvelous chronicle of a retired doctor's world cruise on QE2 (which means it may have been written more than a decade ago). It was so good -- that I want to recommend it to a pal but I can't find it (we moved a few months ago, books are still in boxes). Does anyone recall?

 

It was really long but also really funny about life aboard, mostly, on a world cruise.

 

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

 

Carolyn

 

Carolyn Spencer Brown

Editor in Chief

Cruise Critic

[bluemarble]

Carolyn,

 

Could the book in question be "Cruising on the Queen Elizabeth 2: Around the World in 91 Days" by Bernard M. Patten? I have not read that book, but I note it's a chronicle of a QE2 world voyage, it was published in 2006 (making it just over a decade old), and the author is a retired M.D. So the details seem to fit.

 

Regards,

John

[jburton59]

That book does fit the OP' s description. It is a fun book.

 

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[RAL72]

The book is called C-six by Nigel Roberts.

 

This link gives all the information and a photo of it :-

 

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/years-as-the-doctor-of-the/author/nigel-roberts/

 

And there's more information on the QE2 forum : https://www.theqe2story.com/forum/index.php/topic,74.0.html

Edited March 20, 2017 by RAL72

[david,Mississauga]

The book is called C-six by Nigel Roberts.

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This is indeed a fascinating book. Dr. Roberts was a lecturer on the 1988 crossing I took. I so enjoyed his talk that I bought the book, which he signed on board, and I re-read it every few years.