Looking for a Ship
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374190771 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Travels With Charlie" on the Sea This book reminded me a lot of one of my all-time favorites, "Travels With Charlie" by Steinbeck. McPhee's writing style, and his ability to describe in an interesting way the lives of ordinary people, was very similar to Steinbeck's book. Granted, I have always been a sucker for books about life at sea, but I highly recommend this to anyone who would like to learn about an industry upon which we all so heavily depend, whether we know it or not.The book is set on a voyage from Charleston to Valparaiso, Chile and back through the Panama . "Boring" according to Anne Martin. Very disappointed. Failed to grab me at all. I chose to read it because my father was in the Merchant Marine. This book gives no history or background of the MM at all. It picks up very late in the history of the organization. It's basically a workingman sob story about how hard it is to get a job you are used to when things are downsizing. The union mentality has such a sense of entitlement. Yawn. Change careers like the rest of us do and quit whining.. Bryan Byrd said Genuine Respect for a Vanishing Breed. After leaving the Marine Corps, one choice for employment that I considered was the U.S. Merchant Marine. I realize now that I knew less about what was involved in it than I had known about the Marine Corps before enlisting - and I had been ridiculously ignorant about the Marines. As it turns out, a relative happened to be working for a barge company on the Mississippi at the end of my enlistment, and he got me hired on with him instead. I didn't necessarily give up the Merchant Marine idea, but I thought it prudent to see whether I enj
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.. This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S
From Publishers Weekly McPhee joined a friend, merchant mariner Andy Chase, on a 42-day voyage from Charleston, S.C., through the Panama Canal, down the Pacific coast of South America. The ship's New England captain "couldn't find his way around a traffic circle" but manages to outmaneuver a tropical storm. . A gem of a book, this leisurely, unpretentious log is a paean to the United States Merchant Marine, a declining institution battered by international competition and lowered cargo rates. McPhee's ( The Control of Nature ) clean, lean prose displays his sharp eye for telling detail and arresting incident. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Porpoises and albatrosses accompany the SS Stella Lykes on a cruise laden with much talk of stowaways, collisions and cocai