Kyle Denning shares insight, critique, wisdom and humor from a 128-day, 36,000-nautical-mile Grand World Voyage on Holland America Line's Zuiderdam. An award-winning artist, he is a passionate observer of people and places. Together with his wife Christeen, he has completed numerous cruises on various cruise lines, including Windstar, Carnival, Norwegian, Princess, Viking and Holland America. In 67 essays and dozens of photographs, he chronicles life on the high seas and unforgettable visits to over 30 countries and 60 ports of call.
In numerous stories and photographs, Kyle Denning chronicles life on the high seas. He writes about people, art, history, music, architecture, culture, religion and the breathtaking beauty of the natural world. His stories include both humorous and critical observations of life aboard ship, including the food, entertainment, medical services, ship's staff and fellow passengers. He records disappointment from missing ports of call due to weather or civil unrest, and the delight of adding additional ports of call to the itinerary. His writing includes deeply moving experiences in Flanders Fields, Belgium, the grinding poverty and residual effects of apartheid in the settlements of South Africa, and the profound mix of hope and sadness on the faces of the orphan boys in Cote d'Ivoire. He observes changing weather, from stifling equatorial heat to gale-force winds, heavy seas and Norwegian blizzards. He shares the traumatic experience of friends who had their credit card stolen by five uniformed police officers in Cape Town, as well as the ship-wide frustration of refusal by port authorities in Dakar, Senegal, to load eight containers of fresh food and supplies aboard the Zuiderdam.
Most importantly, he shares fascinating experiences with lovely, welcoming people at virtually every port of call. What he found is indeed, a wonderful world. "Musings" is replete with surprise, humor and inspiration. Denning describes his world cruise experience as "a geographical, historical, geological, cultural, political, dialectic, oceanic, biological, musical, culinary, botanical, artistic and navigational course....on steroids."
He has already packed bags for an entirely different itinerary, because he discovered world cruising is an adventure like no other.
