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The tattooed man : a tale of strange adventures befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer "Araby," upon his first voyage from San Francisco to Genoa, via the Panama Canal

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Description: Teenaged Tod goes in search of his missing older brother. He takes a job as a cabin boy, and later stoker on a freighter out of San Francisco bound for Genoa. An interesting story because of the vividly realistic portrayal of life aboard tramp freighters in the inter-war years.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1946.
Call number: 654919
Creator: Pease, Howard (1894-1974)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.
Dimensions: 21 cm.
Associated people: Hong, You Chung, (1898-1977,); Hong, Mabel, (1907-1998,); Hong, Roger S., (1941-2006,)
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