Name: Looking for a Ship
Author: John McPhee

John McPhee

<span>On one of the last American merchant ships, second mate Andy Chase and author board the S. S. Stella Lykes, captained by Paul McHenry Washburn. The 42-day journey down the Pacific coast of South America stops for freight at Cartagena, Balboa, Lima, and Guayaquil — notorious for pirates. The crew exchange tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage. </span>

Looking for a Ship

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

The Patch

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process

Silk Parachute

Uncommon Carriers

The Founding Fish

Annals of the Former World

Irons in the Fire

The Second John McPhee Reader

The Ransom of Russian Art

Assembling California

The Control of Nature

Rising from the Plains

Heirs of General Practice

In Suspect Terrain

La Place de la Concorde Suisse

Basin and Range

Coming Into the Country

The John McPhee Reader

The Survival of the Bark Canoe

Pieces of the Frame

The Curve Of Binding Energy

The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

Giving Good Weight

Encounters with the Archdruid

The Crofter and the Laird: Life on an Hebridean Island

Levels of the Game

A Roomful of Hovings and Other Profiles

Oranges

The Pine Barrens

The Headmaster

A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton

Crossing The Craton

Looking for a Ship

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