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8. "Three Sea Stories." 102 pages. Published in October 1999. $10.
Fictionalized memoirs. Lessons learned by a fairly innocent
16-year-old working as an engine room "wiper" on a merchant marine
voyage, by an ambitious 24-year-old green ensign on U.S. Coast Guard
weather patrol in the North Atlantic, and by a naive 29-year-old in a>BR<
curious encounter with a hospitalized sea captain.
Table of Contents
1."The Captain's Indifference"
2."The Captain's Obsession"
3." The Captain's Liberty"
DEDICATION: To the memory of my friend
Carl Hanssen (1927-1999)
Brooklyn-born, Princeton '51,
the sailor who hitchhiked
in his uniform.
He loved life, women, acting,
Poetry whether it rhymed or not,
psychiatry when it wasn't boring,
and people wwho were funny.
{ INTRODUCTION }
{ PUBLICATIONS OF THE FIVE AND TEN PRESS 1995-2005 }
{ ORDER FORM }
{ROBERT KEELEY'S BIOGRAPHICAL DATA}
{D.C. GOVERNANCE: IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER OF RACE AND MONEY}
{ANNALS OF INVESTING
STEVE FORBES VS. WARREN BUFFETT }
{ THE FILE: A PRINCETON MEMOIR }
{ESSAYS FAST AND LOOSE: A CHRISTMAS MISCELLANY }
{LETTERS MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED}
{ INNOCENTS OF THE LATTER DAY: MODERN AMERICANS ABROAD }
{ ESSAYS COLD AND HOT: A NEW YEAR"S POTPOURRI}
{ MSS REVISTED }
{ THREE SEA STORIES }
{CREATURES OF THE EARTH AND THE MIND}
{MY COMMUTE}
{SIC TRANSIT}
{THE GREAT PHELSUMA CAPER - A DIPLOMATIC MEMOIR}
{ THE PORT OF MISSING MEN - A NOVEL }
{ POETRY MOSTLY OFF THE BEATEN TRACK }
{ PARTING THE CURTAIN }
{ ESSAYS NEAR AND FAR: AS A NEW CENTURY DAWNS }
{ RANDOM THOUGHTS, ANECDOTES, AND MEMORIES OF A BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE THAT IS NO MORE }
{ FROM THE HEARTLAND }
{ ONE OF THE VERY BEST MEN }
{ A STORY GOES WITH IT }
{ LOW CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS IN HIGH PLACES: John Mitchell and Watergate. }
{ THE WORLD ACCORDING TO WHITBECK. }
{ AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN WORLD WAR I. }
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