"We booked a ship to pick up the boat, got approval from sponsors, and that fell through," said Worthington, who is working on his fourth Volvo Ocean Race campaign.
The opening pages of this burnished doorstep of a book show a ship in full sail on a pencilled sea against a scribbly shifting sky.
Mr. Spencer, whose new book is "A Ship Made of Paper" and who is the author of seven previous novels, barely knows Ms. Didion himself.
In addition to the private greetings, there are examples of rare, limited-edition printed booklets, including one of 48 copies of Sylvia Plath's first book, A Winter Ship.
Dubose and Reid pursue their goal with gusto as they run through a catalog of allegations concerning DeLay's role in the recent Texas redistricting controversy, his ties to Israel and that brief flap over his abandoned plan to book a cruise ship for Republican delegates at the Republican convention.
As Gay writes in his memoir, "My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin," he and his parents were booked on a ship called the St . Louis scheduled to leave Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba, on May 13th.
Not skinny Somali pirates, but the kind you'd find illustrated in a Howard Pyle book or on a ship in the middle of the 17th century, wrapped in dark turbans, cold steel, and hard looks.
For example, Remark's Books (kept by a ship's captain or master) from various marine surveys conducted in Southeast Asian waters are available via ACRE from the 1840s onwards (http://www.met-acre.org/wg1-data/imaging-and-digitisation-ofhistorical-instrumental-weather-observations-in-ship-logbooks/Report_UKHO_Remarks_books_inventory_cward_fwilliamson.doc?attredirects=0).
Bored, and feeling somewhat better, Davis booked passage on a ship to New York, then continued to Washington, D.C., where he visited his old schoolmate George Wallace Jones.
