num_pages: 284
description: Ever know a full-time undertaker and sometime sailor foolish enough to take a life raft inside a phone booth, then accidentally trip over the ripcord? Well, British author Tony James does, and he describes the incident succinctly and with comic flare in his entertaining and well-written memoir Up the A Lifetime Spent Trying to be a Sailor. ― Sail Magazine
language: English
title: Up the Creek: A Lifetime Spent Trying to Be a Sailor
titlecomplete: Up the Creek: A Lifetime Spent Trying to Be a Sailor
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Sheridan House