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Six young men from Taiwan, with no money nor sailing experience, shared a dream to sail a Chinese coastal junk on the big oceans. They found a dilapidated junk in the backwater of their fishing village. With conning and cajoling they managed to get her to sea, but just ten miles out everything started going wrong. Three days after a celebratory send-off, the crew limped back to port with their tails between their legs. Yet four months later, having survived many red tapes, a typhoon, a gale and countless defeats, despair, fears of death and near-mutiny fights, the junk finally completed her journey across the Pacific. Picking up a strong wind underneath the Golden Gate Bridge she outran all the boats carrying the customs officers, the immigration officers and the press corps that were chasing her. On the following day, their story was carried by media all over the world. "...a bold journey..." -San Francisco Chronicle "...a historic moment..." -San Francisco Examiner"...our Parthenon..." -Historical Monuments displayed on San Francisco Waterfront "...as seaworthy as picturesque..." -Movietone News"...Naeste gang - sa rejs med junke!" -Hjemmet, Gothenburg
About the Author: Paul Chow grew up in the family of a government railroad manager. Throughout his childhood, his family moved with his father's career, from one railroad line to another. In 1937, Japan invaded China, shattering the life of this family. His mother, with four children in tow, ran for their lives, keeping barely one step ahead of the advancing enemy forces. With WWII on the doorsteps, Chow quit high school to join the Allied Forces in Burma to fight the Japanese, which by that time had occupied most of Southeast Asia. After the war, he took up fishing. But after spending nine years at sea, fisherman's life offered little challenge to him. In 1955, he bought a junk and sailed across the Pacific Ocean with five of his friends. At the age of 29, having been through fourteen different schools and no high school diploma to speak of, he enrolled in a junior college in San Francisco. After a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley he went on to obtain a PhD from Northwestern University. For the next 29 years he taught physics and astronomy in universities and did consulting in computer industry. Since retirement from California State University at Northridge in 1994, Chow has devoted full time to writing.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781461189152
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 290 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1461189152
  • Publisher Date: 04 Apr 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Width: 133 mm


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