The long awaited third volume of Elias Kulukundis’s trilogy of autobiographical memoirs,,“Bold Coasts – Life in a Greek shipping family”, is out now in English and Greek. The book dramatizes the writer’s transition from a political activist who organized the escape of a minister interred by the Junta of the 1960’s, to a shipping financier and family man who made headlines with a tanker investment in 1999.

At the same time, it opens a window into the closed world of Greek shipping and chronicles the fortunes of one of the oldest Greek shipping families through three generations.

Bold Coasts opens a window into the dark reality beneath the glamor of Greek shipping, as the story is told from the view-point not of an outsider who stays on the surface, but by a mature writer who has experienced life in a Greek shipping family at first hand.