RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif., June 11, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- The spiritual calm, the violent fury and the incredible mystique of the world's vast oceans are all captured in ex-seaman Bob A. Ellison's Wet Wonders -- a Novel and Other Tales of the Sea (now available through 1stBooks).
Thousand of years ago Igva told his daughter, Eku, "Sea God created the first fisherman in a fire on the bottom of the ocean." "There's no Sea God," argued Ogo, Eku's mother. "Your father's crazy as a loon." How Eku survived, after watching, in horror, her mother murder her father when their boat crashed on a reef during a violent Antarctica storm, is only one of the powerful stories in Wet Wonders that span the world and time.
Another action suspense story is about the unarmed freighter Annabel Lee, tracked by an enemy submarine on the North Atlantic in the tense hours before World War II was declared. The submarine's "kapitanlieutenant" says to his crew, "Soon we will sink that ship ahead with the poetic name." In Munich, Adolph Hitler is discussing strategy with his staff. In Washington, D.C., President Roosevelt meets with Harry Hopkins, his speechwriter. In London, Winston Churchill is in conference with his war secretary.
Standing lookout on the Annabel Lee's forepeak, Sam Hodge, an elderly seaman who has never found the snug harbor every sailor seeks, shivers in a fierce Atlantic gale. From the viewpoints of the world leaders, the crews of the submarine and the freighter, this dramatic novella climaxes when a torpedo is fired from the submarine and Sam finally finds his snug harbor in an astonishing, surprise ending.
Other Wet Wonders tales tell the fact-based account of the Canadian steamboat Princess Sophia, sunk in 1918 off the Alaska coast with one unexpected survivor; how Hawaiian seaman Kalakaua ends up in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped; and an intriguing South Seas story about young love at sea.
Ellison has published two other works including 30 Day Wonders and The Racehorse From Outer Space.
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