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Life on the Ohio

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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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