Description
In this vivid work of narrative nonfiction, a writer joins his friend Andy Chase, a second mate struggling to find employment, aboard the American-flagged container ship S.S. Stella Lykes. Their forty-two-day voyage from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America and through the Panama Canal brings calls at ports including Cartagena, Balboa, Lima, Guayaquil, and Valparaiso, while revealing the demanding routines and hazards of life at sea. Along the way, shipboard stories of courage, folly, disaster, and survival illuminate the traditions of merchant mariners and the steep decline of the American merchant marine. Observant, richly reported, and enlivened by memorable characters, the book is both an engrossing sea journey and a thoughtful portrait of work, friendship, and a vanishing maritime world.
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paperback
Macfarlane Walter & Ross
Published Jan 1, 1990
241 pages
ISBN: 0921912099
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First Published
1990
Language
eng
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