| Steaming to Bamboola - The World of a Tramp Freighter |  | Author: Christopher Buckley
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 711000
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
ISBN: 0312927932
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.41
EAN: 9780312927936
ASIN: 0312927932
Publication Date: June 1983
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 I been. I gone. I seen. August 9, 2004
Bullelephant (N.Y., New York USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Christopher Buckley wrote a great book here. Too bad he didn't stick with this sort of writing. Had to make a lving I guess. This book is about the average Joe (sailors on a tramp steamer) and what he has to do to make a living. Ironic that Buckley comes from such an upper toff family --he's the son of Bill Buckley.
The folks written about here never went to an Ivy League school. They live in trailer or crappy little houses by the highway somewhere. Buckley celebrates them and entertains us. A great great read.
 recommended summer reading June 23, 2000
Chris Harbaugh (KOKOMO, IN USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I read this book after seeing Chris Buckley on the Letterman show. This is a a thoroughly entertaining chronicle of how a child of wealth and privelege (and sailing) decides to enlist in the merchant marine and see the world. Buckley's own adventures are highly entertaining and he throws in enough other skewed sea stories to keep the reader intrigued. Since it is mostly a collection of nautical anecdotes it is easy to put down and pick up again later, it is light and genuinely funny and a perfect companion for the pool or beach.
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