First Ship
Merriam, John
Set in 1969-70, this is a chronicle of a young man's flight from
the Viet Nam draft and potential arrest on unrelated charges. The
story starts in Seattle and goes to the coast of Maine, a vegetable
oil factory in New Orleans, the red light district of wartime Saigon,
and ends up with hitchhiking on Route 66 to get back to Seattle from
New Orleans.
This is the first in a collection of sea stories based upon the
author's experience working abo...
