Six Weeks on the Throne

ISBN-13: 9781304200617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 404 str.

Rick Frey

Opis

The true story of a 19 year-old California surfer who stows away on two passenger liners and circumnavigates the world in 79 days. Tag along as he learns the lessons of shipboard survival and how to circumvent Immigration, Customs, and port security officials. Join the stowaway as he poses as a passenger during the day...and sleeps in shipboard restrooms at night!Travel with him on SS Iberia from Hawaii to Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, India, the Suez Canal, Egypt, Spain, Portugal, and the ships final destination, England. Discover, as he does, that theres only one dangerous way to finally get ashore undetected.Join him throughout Britain as he searches desperately to find a way back to the States without having a passport or even a drivers license. And come aboard once again as he stows away on SS Canberra to cross the Atlantic and finally reach home.Twelve action-packed chapters and an epilogue provide a first-hand account of a truly remarkable coming-of-age story.