Looking for a Ship
This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2011
- ISBN-13
- 9781429958110
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Merchant marine lifeMaritime industry declineSea voyage
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1991)
Other awarded books from John McPhee
- Annals of the Former World
- Basin and Range
- Coming Into the Country
- Rising from the Plains
- The Curve of Binding Energy
- The Control of Nature
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