Voyage to Somewhere

• Book ID: 126222060
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 726 KB
• Category: Standards

✦ 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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