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Looking for a ship
The United States Merchant Marine, once a fleet of over 2000 ships, now has fewer than 400. The author recounts his 42-day trip down the west coast of South America and provides a portrait of the merchant mariner and modern seafaring life.
- "The United States Merchant Marine, once a fleet of over 2000 ships, now has fewer than 400. The author recounts his 42-day trip down the west coast of South America and provides a portrait of the merchant mariner and modern seafaring life."@en
- "As the story begins, Andy Chase 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. John McPhee along, Chase finds a job as a second mate aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes, captained by the extraordinary Paul McHenry 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 an extraordinary calling. -Back cover."
- "Presents the author with his considerable storytelling ability aboard the S.S. Stella Lykes, a merchant marine vessel leaving Charleston on a 42-day run to South America."@en
- "The United States Merchant Marine, once a fleet of over 2000 ships, now has fewer than 400 ships. The author recounts his forty-two day trip down the west coast of South America and provides a portrait of the merchant mariner and modern seafaring life."
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