Supercargo by Thornton Mccamish
Fascinated by the shabby mystique of port cities, and drawn to the lingering romance of travel by ship, Thornton McCamish embarked on a journey to explore the disappearing culture of the high seas. This book traces his travels, setting out from Marseilles, following the smell of fish and diesel around the Mediterranean and the Middle East before heading to Cape Town via the Canary Islands and on through East Africa and the spice and slave routes of the Indian Ocean. The book is all about the romance and menace of the ports, an attempt to find a place that never really existed, where the girls are always friendly, the aces are always high and the treasure is still where Blackbeard buried it.
McCamish, Thornton: - Thornton McCamish is a freelance journalist and writer. He was editor of the Big Issue (Australia) magazine from 1996 to 1999. His book Supercargo: A Journey Among Ports (2002) was published by Lonely Planet. Thornton received a 2013 Merlyn Myer Biography stipend to write Our Man Elsewhere - awarded on the strength of his outstanding proposal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781864503463 |
| ISBN 10 | 1864503467 |
| Titel | Supercargo |
| Autor | Thornton Mccamish |
| Serie | Lonely Planet Journeys |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Lonely Planet Publications Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2002-02-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 280 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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