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An edition of Song of the Sirens (1968)

Song of the Sirens

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Ernest Gann the Sailing Man (formerly Ernest Gann the Flying Man: Fate Is the Hunter, The High and the Mighty, The Company of Eagles) applies his amusing and astonishing savvy to the sea. Mr. Gann has sailed in, and/or fallen in love with many boats, but the love of his life was the Albatross, a brigantine 'with a capricious auxiliary motor dubbed the ""African Queen."" A good deal of acute anxiety afloat related directly to desperate attentions to the recalcitrant Queen. There are tales of storms, looming sandbars, novice-to-veteran seafarers, airy badinage while waist-deep in deck wash, a variety of imaginative machines. Mr. Gann pays tribute to other craft, but from the moment her jib boom skewered the pilot house of a Dutch police boat, to the moment she sailed away with another man, the Albatross was a constant devotion. Although modest in pretensions, Mr. Gann spins out some jaunty maneuvers (including the bleeding-finger school of fishery), but landlubbers will feel at home on the rolling deck. Salty, manfully philosophical at times, with some of the most hilarious machines afloat, this is a brisk, spinnaker-smacking sail.

Publish Date
Publisher
Sheridan House
Language
English
Pages
336

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Song of the Sirens
Song of the Sirens
September 18, 2007, Sheridan House
Paperback in English
Cover of: Song of the sirens
Song of the sirens
2007, Sheridan House
in English
Cover of: Song of the Sirens
Song of the Sirens
2001, Sheridan House, Incorporated
in English
Cover of: Song of the sirens
Song of the sirens
2000, Sheridan House
in English
Cover of: Song Of The Sirens
Song Of The Sirens
1972, Ballantine Books
Cover of: Song of the Sirens
Song of the Sirens
1970, Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback in English - 2nd Printing edition
Cover of: Song of the sirens
Song of the sirens
1969, Hodder& Stoughton
in English
Cover of: Song of the Sirens
Song of the Sirens
1968, Simon and Schuster
Hardback in English
Cover of: Song of the sirens
Song of the sirens
1968, Simon and Schuster
in English

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First Sentence

"If this series of gales does not soon relent, I have promised to bring out the Chinese firecrackers which have been cached in my secret drawer for several years."

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
8.9 x 5.8 x 1.1 inches
Weight
1 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8740407M
ISBN 10
1574092545
ISBN 13
9781574092547
Library Thing
269408
Goodreads
1995425

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August 10, 2010 Edited by IdentifierBot added LibraryThing ID
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