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Ride the Volcano

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This is the story of a girl who dreamed of adventure and met a man who lived it. They met in a waterfront bar in Puntarenas, and their first meeting seemed likely to be their last. Little Bit wanted a passage to Panama, and Kappick didn't want a woman aboard, particularly an American woman, and was not tactful in his refusal. But fate has other plans, and before the night was out the Zutalors was slipping stealthily from her moorings, and then heading full speed for the open sea with bullets spitting after her - and Little Bit was aboard. From then on she had adventure enough and to spare, for she found that to travel with Kappick took her into stormy seas d treacherous shoals, among smugglers, primitive Indians, and ruthless criminals, into danger from the violence of the elements and worse danger from the violence of men.
Peter Pinney, as readers of this travel books know, is himself an adventurer and an unconventional traveller on out-of-the-way places; it is not surprising then, that in this exciting story he has captured so vividly both the colour and the perilous undercurrents of life in the lands between the Atlantic and the caribbean.

Language: English

Pages: 209

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1960

Ride the Volcano

0/5 ( ratings)

This is the story of a girl who dreamed of adventure and met a man who lived it. They met in a waterfront bar in Puntarenas, and their first meeting seemed likely to be their last. Little Bit wanted a passage to Panama, and Kappick didn't want a woman aboard, particularly an American woman, and was not tactful in his refusal. But fate has other plans, and before the night was out the Zutalors was slipping stealthily from her moorings, and then heading full speed for the open sea with bullets spitting after her - and Little Bit was aboard. From then on she had adventure enough and to spare, for she found that to travel with Kappick took her into stormy seas d treacherous shoals, among smugglers, primitive Indians, and ruthless criminals, into danger from the violence of the elements and worse danger from the violence of men.
Peter Pinney, as readers of this travel books know, is himself an adventurer and an unconventional traveller on out-of-the-way places; it is not surprising then, that in this exciting story he has captured so vividly both the colour and the perilous undercurrents of life in the lands between the Atlantic and the caribbean.

Language: English

Pages: 209

Format: Hardcover

Release: January 01, 1960

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