Steaming to Bamboola

Steaming to Bamboola
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781493076635
ISBN-13 : 1493076639
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Book Synopsis Steaming to Bamboola by : Christopher Buckley

Download or read book Steaming to Bamboola written by Christopher Buckley and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbianna, an ancient tramp steamer with a notably eccentric crew, 200 layers of paint on her decks, a sailing history going back to 1945, and demons in her plumbing, was crossing the Atlantic for the umpteenth time—but on this occasion with a sharp-eyed observer, whose brilliant account brings to life the harshness, humor, and bizarreness of life on board. Steaming to Bamboola is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first-hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking, and hard romance. It is the tale of a ship and her crew, men fated to wander for a living—always steaming to, but never quite reaching, Bamboola. This was the first book by renowned author and humorist Christopher Buckley, which was originally published in 1982 to glowing reviews. Forty years and over twenty books and hundreds of articles later, Buckley introduces Columbianna and her roguish crew to a new generation of readers.


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