Inside the Floating City: The Working Life of a Modern Cruise Ship - Couverture souple

Mare, Vega

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ISBN 13 : 9791399093100

Editeur : Sea Lantern, 2025

Synopsis

A modern cruise ship is more than a vessel — it is a world with its own pulse, logic, and quiet rituals.

When Vega Mare first joined the crew, she stepped into a city at sea where timing shaped every interaction, and where seventy nationalities worked in a rhythm most guests never glimpse. Over fifteen years, she moved through the ship’s backstage corridors, crew decks, and senior officer ranks — learning not only the work, but the interior life that forms around it, and entering a constellation of experiences she had never imagined the world could hold until she stepped aboard.

Inside the Floating City offers a rare view into that world.
Not as spectacle, and not as confession, but as a lived map of how people endure, adapt, and find meaning within an environment built entirely on motion.

Rather than lifting a curtain, this book invites the reader inside:
into the tempo of a ship at dawn,
into the balance of leadership and restraint,
into the quiet negotiations that hold a floating city together.

For cruise enthusiasts, it reveals the human architecture behind the voyage — the unseen harmonies and pressures that shape each day at sea.

For aspiring or newly hired crew, it offers grounded orientation:
what life feels like on the inside,
how teams form and fracture,
what anchors you,
and what challenges you can expect as you find your place aboard.

Both readers — the dreamer and the doer — will find a world rendered in cinematic stillness and lived detail.

Clear, atmospheric, and deeply observant, Inside the Floating City is a portrait of seafaring life as it is experienced from within: measured, human, and shaped by the quiet discipline that keeps a ship steady in open water.

About the Author
Vega Mare is a writer and former senior ship officer with more than fifteen years at sea. Having led international teams across oceans, she now writes from the meeting point of system and soul — where structure reveals its humanity, and where story gives form to the unseen rhythms of modern seafaring.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vega Mare is a former senior officer with more than fifteen years of experience aboard major cruise ships, where she rose through the ranks to leadership positions within one of the world's most complex operational environments. Her career spans global routes and some of the industry's most demanding waters, giving her an insider's understanding of shipboard life, organizational culture, and the social structures that govern closed, high-intensity workplaces.Her work combines lived maritime experience with a reflective, narrative approach that examines how people build meaning, community, and resilience in environments defined by motion and hierarchy. Mare's writing has drawn interest from readers of immersive nonfiction, maritime history, and sociology, as well as from training institutions and hospitality programs seeking contemporary case studies of life and labor at sea. She is the founder of Sea Lantern Studio, an independent imprint dedicated to maritime literature and global storytelling.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sea Lantern
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9791399093100
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible