A Mile Down
The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8615406M
- ISBN-139781560257103
- ISBN-101560257105
- OCLC Control Number60783049
- OCLC Control Numbermiledowntruestor0000vann_v0p2
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006295534
- LibraryThing4085465
- Goodreads949633
Classifications
- LCCG540 .V34 2005
Description
If you've ever owned a sailboat or had a friend who did, you know how it begins: with a dream. You dream about the ship, and gradually the dream consumes you. Practical considerations lose all meaning ... until, inevitably, the dream morphs into a nightmare. David Vann is familiar with that nightmare. His begins in Turkey: a thirty-year-old tourist, he stumbles across the steel frame of a ninety-foot sailboat that cries out to be built. From friends, family, and credit cards, he borrows the $150,000 to construct the ship. The Turkish builders take shameless advantage of him, eventually charging him over $500,000. On the edge of financial ruin, Vann starts a chartering business. But, when some new part of the ship isn't falling apart, he encounters freak storms. As his debts escalate, Vann begins to wonder if he is merely repeating his father's dreams and failures at sea-which ended with his father's suicide.
First Sentence
THERE'S MORE ART in this world than we think.
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