Running Away to Sea: Round the World on a Tramp Freighter

by Douglas Fetherling

Book Overview

At a low point in his life, the prolific Canadian writer Douglas Fetherling sought to clear his head by taking the kind of trip that many of us dream about going round the world on one of the last of the tramp freighters. The four-month voyage carried him (and a handful of other travellers) some thirty thousand nautical miles, from Europe via the Panama Canal to the South Pacific, a region with a future as fragile as its past is romantic. There the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771031157
• ISBN13: 9780771031151
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"