From the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a World War II novel that is as thrilling as it is true to life Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he is being sent right back out, this time as captain of a suppl
Voyage to Somewhere
โ Scribed by Wilson, Sloan
- Book ID
- 108686186
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 327 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781497689602
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โฆ Synopsis
From the bestselling author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a World War II novel that is as thrilling as it is true to life
Hoping to draw a nice, lengthy shore duty after two years at sea, Lieutenant Barton is instead told that he is being sent right back out, this time as captain of a supply ship sailing from California to New Guinea and stopping at every small island in between. Homesick for his wife, he has no choice but to accept the assignment and a crew of twenty-six landlubbers whose last names all begin with W. Their first load of cargo? Pineapples destined for Hawaii.
Life aboard the one-hundred-eighty-foot SV-126 is never dull. When Barton isn't battling gale-force winds and monstrous waves, he is coping with seasick sailors and budding rivalries that threaten to turn mutinous. Hanging over the ship like a storm cloud is the knowledge that the world is at war and the enemy is never far away.
Whether Lieutenant...
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