At a turning point in his life, George Fetherling embarked on an adventure to sail round the world on one of the last of the tramp freighters. The four-month voyage carried him 30,000 nautical miles from Europe via the Panama Canal to the South Pacific and back by way of Singapore, Indonesia, the Indian Ocean, and Suez.
Written with dash, colour, and droll humour, Fetherling’s narrative is peopled by a rich cast of characters, from the Foreign Legionnaires of French Polynesia to the raskol gangs of Papua New Guinea. The author captures the reality of life aboard a working cargo ship – the boredom, the seclusion, the differences of nationality and culture that isolation and cramped quarters seem to exaggerate. But the routine of loneliness or tranquility is punctuated by moments of near-panic – shipboard fires, furniture-smashing storms, even a brush with pirates in the Straits of Malacca.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 910.4/1
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781550028539 9781770703612
- LCCN
- G440.F47
- LCCN Item number
- A3 2009eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (236 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00225192 (OCoLC)666232876 (CaOOCEL)433388
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Running Away to Sea 1
- Round the World on a Tramp Freighter 1
- George Fetherling 1
- Running Away to Sea 1
- Running 2
- Away to Sea 2
- Running Away to Sea 3
- Round the World on a Tramp Freighter 3
- George Fetherling 3
- Running 4
- Away to Sea 4
- Round the World on a Tramp Freighter 4
- George Fetherling 4
- Contents 6
- Authors Note 238
- About the Author 239
- Running Away to Sea 242
- Round the World on a Tramp Freighter 242
- George Fetherling 242
- Running Away to Sea 242
