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Then she published her autobiography in 1929: a rip-roaringmemoir of a young girl growing up on a schooner with her hearty sea captainfather and a crew of salty sailors and the incredible and death-defyingadventures she had traveling the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eExcept...none of it was true!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in 1902 in Berkeley, California as HelenWagner to a middle-class family. Yes, her father was a Pacific Ocean merchantschooner captain. And yes, he took Joan--and her mother--on a 15-month sailingadventure when she was a girl. After knocking around odd jobs in San Francisco,young Helen moved to Los Angeles to take acting lessons and began her career.Her early notable roles were in pirate movies as either the intrepid heroine ordamsel in distress.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe published her \"autobiography\" which becamea runaway best-seller in 1929. But a few months later, the truth was revealed.She had never left the shores of California! Amidst the scandal, Joan remaineddefiant, telling the Pittsburgh Press in 1930,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \"Eighty percent of it was true and the rest I coloredup. I made some changes to protect people and the rest to make it betterreading. 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The legends of the sea told me by the sailors on our ship were my fairy tales; the freak storms, the bewilder ing doldrums in the tropics, and the companionship of Old shell-back sailors, the foundation of my experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbout the Publisher\u0026gt;\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com\u0026gt;\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. 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