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Desperate voyage / John Caldwell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caldwell, John, -1998.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels.
- South Pacific Ocean.
- Pagan (Ship).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (333 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Narrative Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In May of 1946, the end of World War II, John Caldwell was trying to return to his Australian bride Mary. Berths on ships were limited at the end of the war, and the earliest departure date he could manage was 1947 -- not soon enough.
- Contents:
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREPARATION
- DEPARTURE
- PRACTICE
- CONFIDENCE
- SUNK!
- CASTAWAY
- ADVENTURE
- OVERBOARD
- MALPELO ISLE
- NAVIGATION
- CREW
- UNENCHANTED ISLES!
- POST OFFICE BAY
- TRADE WINDS
- DEVILFISH
- HURRICANE
- DISMASTED
- JURY RIG
- LOST
- FOODLESS
- STARVATION AND LAND
- RESCUE
- TUVUTHA
- GOING NATIVE
- A SAIL!
- AUSTRALIA.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown & Co., 1949.
- OCLC:
- 70724444
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