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Mcphee - Looking For A Ship - Paperback
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Description: This is an extraordinary tale of life aboard what may be one of the last American merchant ships. As the story begins Andy Chase who holds a license as a second mate is looking for a ship. In less than ten years the United States Merchant Marine has shrunk from more than two thousand ships to fewer than four hundred and Chase faces the scarcity of jobs from which all American merchant mariners have been suffering. With John Mc Phee along Chase finds a job as a second mate aboard the S. S. Stella Lykes captained by the extraordinary Paul Mc Henry Washburn. The journey takes them on a forty - two day run down the Pacific coast of South America with stops to unload and pick up freight at such ports as Cartagena Valparaiso Balboa Lima and Guayaquil an area notorious for pirates. As the crew make their ocean voyage they tell sea stories of other runs and other ships tales of disaster stupidity greed generosity and courage. Through the journey itself and the tales told emerge the history and character of a fascinating calling.
Title: Looking For A Ship
Author(s): Mcphee
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374523190
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/1991
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: This is an extraordinary tale of life aboard what may be one of the last American merchant ships. As the story begins Andy Chase who holds a license as a second mate is looking for a ship. In less than ten years the United States Merchant Marine has shrunk from more than two thousand ships to fewer than four hundred and Chase faces the scarcity of jobs from which all American merchant mariners have been suffering. With John Mc Phee along Chase finds a job as a second mate aboard the S. S. Stella Lykes captained by the extraordinary Paul Mc Henry Washburn. The journey takes them on a forty - two day run down the Pacific coast of South America with stops to unload and pick up freight at such ports as Cartagena Valparaiso Balboa Lima and Guayaquil an area notorious for pirates. As the crew make their ocean voyage they tell sea stories of other runs and other ships tales of disaster stupidity greed generosity and courage. Through the journey itself and the tales told emerge the history and character of a fascinating calling.
Title: Looking For A Ship
Author(s): Mcphee
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Inc
Barcode: 9780374523190
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/1991
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
