（海浪与美酒）Seaspray and Whisky

出版时间：1993-12  出版社：The Akadine Press  作者：Norman Freeman  页数：234  
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内容概要

A teetotaler at sea, with a crew three sheets to the wind. New Afterword by Thomas Meagher. 　　Writes Katherine A. Powers, of The Boston Globe , "I read Seaspray and Whisky in one enthralled sitting. It is a memoir of a young Irish Radio Officer who has the exotic misfortune to sign up for a tour of duty on a ship commanded and crewed by a collection of topers. The ship's most notable presence is a cargo of Scotch whisky. The author, who is a teetotaler and a bit of a priss, observes with awed restraint as the voyage from Liverpool to New Orleans and on to Houston disintegrates into a binge, the consequence of 960 bottles of Vat 69 disappearing during transit. Freeman's powers of description are stunning: the voyage comes alive with its curious assemblage of seamen, all exceptionally human in their cunning and folly, in their aspirations and failures."

书籍目录

INTRODUCTION'DIRTY OLD TUB, ISN'T SHE?'DAY OF OBSERVATION'THE FLOWER OF BRITISH MANHOOD'ROUGH SAILING'WHAT AM I DOING HERE?'A SPIRITED CHRISTMASNEW YORK LANDFALLTOWARDS THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIREUP THE MISSISSIPPI'LIVELY PLACE, THIS'ROISTERING IN NEW ORLEANSA NIGHT OLFF WITtt CAPTAIN THOMPSON'DINNER AT ANTOINE'S, No LESS!'SUCCESS ON STAGE AND IN BEDROOMTHE PARTY WANESMOON OVER THE MEXICAN GULFTEXAN BACKWATERTIME OF CALAMITYTHE VOYAGE TURNS SOURIN MOBILE AND TAMPADISMAYING DISCOVERYMID-OCEAN TURBULENCE AND MEDICATIONRECOVERY AND REJUVENATIONA FLOATING THEATREAFTERWORD