The last voyage of the Albatross
by Charles F. Gieg
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The phenomenal true story of the final voyage of the Albatross, a US school ship run by a husband and wife team from Conn (Captain Christopher 'Skipper' Sheldon & Alice Sheldon, MD). Told by two of the surviving students (Geig & Sutton), this coming of age story is a must read for every high school age young man. As an aside, it makes an excellent case for Google digitizing orphan works as I am only aware of the original printing and the only available copies online are "acquired" library copies all of which are going for $125-$300. It's truly a shame that this book is not available to the public.
This is also the version of this story which inspired the 1996 movie White Squall, which I also highly recommend.
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Albatross (Brigantine), coming of age, school, ship, teenTimes
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| January 30, 2011 | Edited by 99.138.104.82 | Added new cover |
| January 7, 2011 | Edited by 69.230.53.68 | Update covers |
| December 5, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Added subjects from MARC records. |
| November 29, 2010 | Edited by Andrew | Edited without comment. |
| December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |