Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea - Rilegato

Greenlaw, Linda

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ISBN 10: 067002192X ISBN 13: 9780670021925

Casa editrice: Viking Pr, 2010

Riassunto

A sequel to the best-selling The Hungry Ocean picks up 10 years after the events of The Perfect Storm and recounts how the financially strapped author accepted a job captaining a swordfishing boat, a voyage marked by the challenges of the vessel's poor condition, bad weather and an inadvertent arrest. 150,000 first printing.

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Praise for The Hungry Ocean

"Anyone who loves the sea will love this book."
-Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

"A beautiful book...A story of triumph, of a woman not only making it but succeeding at the highest level in one of the most male-dominated and most dangerous professions."
-Douglas Whynott, The New York Times Book Review

Praise for The Lobster Chronicles

"These true, interwoven stories of island life and lobstering are as engaging and uncommon as [Greenlaw's] adventures at sea."
-Boston Magazine

"Captivating reading: satisfying as a Maine lobster dinner."
-Kirkus

L'autore:

Linda Greenlaw, America’s only female swordfish boat captain, was featured in the book and film The Perfect Storm. She has written three New York Times bestselling nonfiction books about life as a commercial fisherman as well as a cookbook and two mysteries. She lives on Isle au Haut, off the coast of Maine.

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• Editore: Viking Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 067002192X
• ISBN 13: 9780670021925
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 242