It is believed to have been inspired by the real-life sailor Simon Hatley, who had been lost at sea and, like Coleridge's mariner, shot down a black albatross from deck.
"Real-life sailors thought it was pretty cool, but most people hated it".
In real life, the "sailor" never walks away.
A life long sailor, Arthur and his wife began sailing together on the schooner Truelove.
After giving his son some life advice, Sailor walks away from his new family, feeling that he will only end up getting them into more trouble.
It required the hull of every cargo ship to be marked with the level of maximum submergence a mark that to this day is called the "Plimsoll line".Ms Jones's strength lies in bringing to life the sailor's friend and the political climate in which he battled.
Life-long sailor, international ad man extraordinaire.
And over the past two decades, more sailors have rounded Cape Horn than in the 80 previous years; they have done so in increasingly light boats, including catamarans and trimarans, with very little loss of life.The sailors of yore in the days when CNN did not exist to broadcast their fate, and when The Economist was too busy covering the empire died unnoticed.
The moving pen is set, retrospectively and somewhat nostalgically, alongside the roaming life of the sailor.
Laya's apartment was a single room, crammed with the essentials of life — like a sailor's cabin or a prison cell, perhaps.
Oh, for the simple life of a sailor -- being battered by storms, struggling with broken equipment, subsisting largely on dried bread.
