num_pages: 190
description: An account of the early life of the author, who was born in 1902 in the middle of the ocean aboard a lumber schooner captained by her father. It recalls her early days roaming the seas from the Northwest to Peru, and includes anecdotes about sharks, girl overboard and fistfights on the quarterdeck.
language: English
title: When God Was an Atheist Sailor: Memories of a Childhood at Sea 1902-1910
titlecomplete: When God Was an Atheist Sailor: Memories of a Childhood at Sea 1902-1910
ratings_count: 10
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc