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 | A Mile Down | David is a writer, a professor at Stanford. But without tenure he decides to give up his academic life and go to Turkey to build a boat and make a new life chartering it out to academic tours around the historic Mediterranean. This is the story of the building of the boat and his subsequent voyages, and rescues. Categories: biography & autobiography, ships |
| by David Vann | ||
| Score: 8.5 | ||
| Published: 2005 | ||
| Read: October 22nd 2024 |
Comments
John said
He seems a highly competent boat-person but he is very unlucky, repeatedly, and very driven. And too trusting of his awful Turkish boat-builder friend. Very entertaining.