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New York, New York, USA: Morrow/Avon, 1991. BZ4 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall wear plus the book is slightly shelf cocked. The story about a young man, 20 years old and recently expelled from college, who joins the crew of a scallop trawler and works the open waters off the Rhode Island coast. He expects unspoiled beauty and idyllic freedom but what he finds instead are endless days of exhausting, treacherous labor, the company of burnouts and dangerous lowlifes and shockingly brutal and sobering lessons in life that include death itself. By the author of "Night Over Day Over Night." 275p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 5.25"x8".

New York, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2001. CE5 - A first edition advance readig copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound coy in tan wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. A book about the quests to explore the arctic often in the form of misguided voyagers who were pushed beyond the limits of their knowledge, technology, and stamina. It is also about the eventual race for the North Pole. References, 209p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).