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Shanghaied at Seventeen on the Cushko
A first person memoir details Bill Meek and two others lured into a South American voyage aboard the Cushko. The crew includes a hostile stew, a brutal cook, and a diverse crew as they endure storms, seasickness, bribes, mutiny, and a stowaway named Monday. After months at sea they return to New York with a hard-won sense of freedom.
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New York Public School No
Bill” Meek
Jim” Fleming
Charlie” Unger
Bill
Cuba
South America
Port Limon
Costa Rica
Dana
Charlie
Jim
New York
Erie Basin
John Royal-Minns
Museum of Natural History
Central Park
Karl Tatzner
Fritz
Gulf Stream
Florida
Bil
St. Lucia
Galley
Board of Trade
Martinique
Barbados
Louis Maranto
Gibson
Charles Tasima Benn
Preeson Ge
Punta Arenas
Talcahuana
Lobas
Valparaiso
Chile
Davy Jones
British West Indies
New York Harbor