Going Overboard
- ISBN-10
- 0670343609
- ISBN-13
- 9780670343607
- Category
- Merchant mariners
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Author
- Lucy Gwin
Description
Godspeed , women . want to thank Verna Gwin and Sue Dawson for saving the letters from which the first draft of this book was made . The writing of this book was subsidized , albeit unwillingly , by a settlement from the boat company ...
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