I came into this world in a room above my parents' grocery shop at 63 Cranbrook Road in Deptford, Southeast London, on March 4, 1920, a stone's throw from Greenwich, the Royal Observatory, and the Prime Meridian -- the middle of the world.
First Watch is the opening volume of Seawater in My Veins, the life history of Douglas J. Harrison.
This first act, detailing Harrison's life from birth to the dawn of World War II, pulls the reader into the remarkable true story of a young dreamer who before he reached the end of his adolescence had lived a lifetime of adventures.
First Watch brings the key events of Harrison's young life together in a perfectly recalled memoir of family, youth, and the anticipation of both war and love.