GETTING IT FOR LOVE IN OLD SAN JUAN is a personal journey of a twenty-year-old New York college student in the early '60s who, fearing a straight path through life, postpones his education to join the merchant marine for adventure and to prove himself in the "real world." The story is alternately gripping and humorous, introspective and dramatic, as he relives his adventures and misadventures in the worst job in the merchant marine: "wiper" in the engine room of an old cargo ship converted to container service between New York, Florida and Puerto Rico. Encountering a mostly hostile crew, the...