(海浪与美酒)Seaspray and Whisky (Common Reader Editions)

分类: 图书,进口原版书,美食 Cooking, Food & Wine ,
作者: Norman Freeman 著
出 版 社: Oversea Publishing House
出版时间: 1993-12-1字数:版次: 1页数: 234印刷时间: 2001/03/01开本:印次:纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9781888173383包装: 平装内容简介
A teetotaler at sea, with a crew three sheets to the wind. New Afterword by Thomas Meagher.
Writes Katherine A. Powers, of The Boston Globe , "I read Seaspray and Whisky in one enthralled sitting. It is a memoir of a young Irish Radio Officer who has the exotic misfortune to sign up for a tour of duty on a ship commanded and crewed by a collection of topers. The ship's most notable presence is a cargo of Scotch whisky. The author, who is a teetotaler and a bit of a priss, observes with awed restraint as the voyage from Liverpool to New Orleans and on to Houston disintegrates into a binge, the consequence of 960 bottles of Vat 69 disappearing during transit. Freeman's powers of description are stunning: the voyage comes alive with its curious assemblage of seamen, all exceptionally human in their cunning and folly, in their aspirations and failures."
目录
INTRODUCTION
'DIRTY OLD TUB, ISN'T SHE?'
DAY OF OBSERVATION
'THE FLOWER OF BRITISH MANHOOD'
ROUGH SAILING
'WHAT AM I DOING HERE?'
A SPIRITED CHRISTMAS
NEW YORK LANDFALL
TOWARDS THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
UP THE MISSISSIPPI
'LIVELY PLACE, THIS'
ROISTERING IN NEW ORLEANS
A NIGHT OLFF WITtt CAPTAIN THOMPSON
'DINNER AT ANTOINE'S, No LESS!'
SUCCESS ON STAGE AND IN BEDROOM
THE PARTY WANES
MOON OVER THE MEXICAN GULF
TEXAN BACKWATER
TIME OF CALAMITY
THE VOYAGE TURNS SOUR
IN MOBILE AND TAMPA
DISMAYING DISCOVERY
MID-OCEAN TURBULENCE AND MEDICATION
RECOVERY AND REJUVENATION
A FLOATING THEATRE
AFTERWORD