Life on the Ohio

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When young James Coomer was offered a job as deckhand on the tugboat Pat Murphy at a dollar an hour, he took his first smell of diesel fuel and knew he was hooked. Life on the Ohio puts the reader in the pilot's seat as Coomer wrestles with runaway barges, navigates through ice and fog, pacifie...

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Autor principal: Coomer, James, 1928-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Coomer, James, > 1928-
Coomer, James, > 1928- > Anecdotes.
Travel.
River steamers.
River life.
Manners and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Vie fluviale > Ohio (Riviere) > Anecdotes.
Bateaux à vapeur fluviaux > Ohio (Riviere) > Anecdotes.
River life > Ohio River > Anecdotes.
River steamers > Ohio River > Anecdotes.
Ohio River.
Ohio (Riviere) > Biographies > Anecdotes.
Ohio (Riviere) > Descriptions et voyages > Anecdotes.
Ohio (Riviere) > Moeurs et coutumes > Anecdotes.
Ohio River > Biography > Anecdotes.
Ohio River > Description and travel > Anecdotes.
Ohio River > Social life and customs > Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Foreword; Foreword; Preface: The Ohio and Me; Harbor Work, 1948-1955; I Begin; Hands On; Solo; Roots; The Wrong Stuff; Ever Get That Run-Down Feeling?; A Sticky Affair; Last of the Muskrateers; Daddy Cool and the Kid; Biff! Bam! Pow!; Moving On; Towboating, 1955-1980; A First Night; Alphonse and Gaston; Coffee, the Real Lubricant; Pride Goeth Before a Bellyache; Little Cat Feet?; Ninety-five Percent Boredom, Five Percent Pure Terror; That's Showbiz, Jack; Night Lights; Burial at Sea; Thirty On, Thirty Off; Ghosts on the River.
  • Who Could Ask for More?Unscrambled Yegg; Christmas on the River; Hang It Up, Pappy; Hoist by My Own Hippie; But Why, Man?; Educating Jerry; Jerry Locks Out; The Luck of the Draw; Days; Time Out, 1967; Happy Landings?; In the End Is the Beginning; A Crusoe Adventure; Manny's Place; A Companion Arrives; Last Lapse; New Orleans Harbor, 1973-1974; Vulcan, a Little Tug That Could and Did; Bab-EI on the Old Miss; Old China Hand-Out; Ships That Pass in the Night; The Odd Couple; Drown and Out in New Orleans; Epilogue; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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