"Letters From a Sailor" is a chronology of actual letters written by my father when he first joined the U.S.Navy, that he sent to his mother and father. This is the story of my father, a young man from a small town in Pennsylvania, who had never ventured outside the states of Pennsylvania and perhaps New Jersey before he joined the Navy. He joined the Navy to see the world and his observations and experiences are factually chronicled through letters he wrote home from 1935 to the beginning of 1937. There are no major sea battles taking place in my book, just day to day experiences of a young man in the U.S. Navy during an interesting period of time. A quick and fun read.
About the Author: Following his retirement from the U.S. Department of State, Nick and his wife, Pat (a multi-media artist) moved to Myrtle Beach, SC, where he began a second career as a photographer and a professional diver. Nick continues to work and travel throughout the world, giving him the opportunity to photograph a wide array of countries and peoples and do underwater photography at some of the best dive locations in the world. He is a member of a number of art groups and displays his photography at local galleries in the Myrtle Beach area. Ribbon Winner in the Seacoast Artist Guild's 2012 & 2014 Fall Art Shows and the 2014 WACG Fall Art Show. Nick's photography was juried into the 2014 Wilmington Art Show, the 2013 and 2014 WACG Art Shows at the Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, the 2014 Greenvile, SC Artist's Guild Fall Show, the 2014 Florence Art Alliance's Fall Show and the 2014 ARTFIELDS Show at Lake City, SC. Nick received an Honorable Mention Award in the 2014 New York Center for Photographic Arts "Animals" Exhibition. He was selected in 2014 to be an Artist-in-Residence for the State of South Carolina State Park Service and recently became a Field Contributor for Nature Photography Magazine. In 2014 Nick published "Masai Mara-A Photographic Safari" and " Masai Mara Revisited" which are available on Amazon.com. and Presto Books. In 2014 he also published an autobiography entitled "FOR GOD AND COUNTRY" -Memories of a Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent. He has held a number of benefit art shows for the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and continues to promote saving African wildlife and banning the sale of ivory throughout the world. You can view Nick's work on his web site: www.worldpics.org. and the See.Me web site Nick has also been invited by the Aiken SC Center for the Arts to hold a one-man show of his work in the Spring of 2015 at one of their galleries in Aiken, SC.