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035			_a(Nz)10990579
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100			_936261 _aEvans, Gerry, _d1937-2008.
245	1	0	_aShipping out : _ba merchant sailor's tale / _cGerry Evans.
260			_aWellington, N.Z. : _bSarah Bennett Books, _c2006.
300			_a238 p., [8] p. of plates : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 234) and index.
520			_aGrowing up in the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth, Gerry Evans discovered his love of the sea. He joined the British merchant marine in 1954, when 95,000 seamen plied their trade under the 'red duster'. Shipping Out is the rollicking memoir of Gerry's life and times. It is the story of riotous nights ashore on the West African coast, and killer gales in the North Atlantic. Of rogue captains, rapacious employers and rascally shipmates. Of exciting and exotic destinations - of fun, fear and a way of life long since passed. But this is more than just a story about the world's great oceans and the men that made their living sailing them. It a story of a boy growing to manhood, on a journey that will eventually find Gerry settling down in a distant land.
650		0	_aMerchant mariners _zWales _vBiography.
650		0	_aMerchant mariners _zNew Zealand _vBiography.
650		0	_aSeafaring life. _914434
600		0	_936261 _aEvans, Gerry, _d1937-2008.
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