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Looking for a Ship Paperback - 1991

by McPhee, John

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  • Title Looking for a Ship
  • Author McPhee, John
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York
  • Date 1991-09
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 470057-6
  • ISBN 9780374523190 / 0374523193
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90003311
  • Dewey Decimal Code 910.45

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About this book

This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. (Publisher Summary)

First Edition Identification


Farrar, Straus & Giroux published a First US Edition, First Printing in New York, 1990.


Macfarlane Walter & Ross published a First Canada Edition, First Printing in Toronto, 1990.


About the author

John McPhee was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and was educated at Princeton University and Cambridge University. His writing career began at Time magazine and led to his long association with The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer since 1965. Also in 1965, he published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and in the years since, he has written nearly 30 books, including Oranges (1967), Coming into the Country (1977), The Control of Nature (1989), The Founding Fish (2002), Uncommon Carriers (2007), and Silk Parachute (2011). Encounters with the Archdruid (1972) and The Curve of Binding Energy (1974) were nominated for National Book Awards in the category of science. McPhee received the Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1977. In 1999, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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