Delilah (Time reading program special edition) - Softcover

Goodrich, Marcus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809436477 ISBN 13: 9780809436477

Publisher: Time-Life Books, 1981

Synopsis

1981 Time Reading Program Special Edition; Time Life Books Inc. Book covers are a hard kind of paper background orange in color with abstract figure drawn in black. 478 pages...intro by Capt. Edward L Beach...written by Marcus Goodrich, copyright 1941....

About this title

From the Back Cover

Delilah is an old four-piper destroyer whose regular beat is one of the world's most exotic - and dangerous - bodies of water: the Sulu Sea. Set at the beginning of the American century just before the Great War, the ship patrols the violent racial and religious tensions that threaten to break America's tenuous grasp on the Philippines, and on its identify as colonial power. In a series of exquisitely-drawn stories, Marcus Goodrich reveals tantalizing glimpses of the heart of each sailor as the crew puts down Philippine insurrections, searches for a gunrunner's cave told of only in island folklore, and delivers medicine to western missionaries.Here is the return of one of the twentieth century's most important and widely translated novels of the sea. It is a boon for lovers of sea yarns and a must-read for any serious student of American literature. (5 3/4 X 9, 526 pages)

About the Author

Marcus Goodrich now lives in Rich­mond, Virginia. He served in the U.S. Navy both as an enlisted man and a commissioned officer during World War I. He was graduated from Colum­bia in 1923, and was a journalist and a screenwriter.

 

James A. Michener is per­haps best known for his Tales of the South Pacific and Hawaii.

Edition details

• Publisher: Time-Life Books
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809436477
• ISBN 13: 9780809436477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478