Driven from his rural home for insulting the parish priest, Midshipman Jake Thomas boards a freighter in New Orleans, entering the exotic world of foreign ports and life on the high seas. Jake plunges hungrily into the adventureof a sea-voyage, finding it a separate existence: authentic, ruthless, unpredictable. The voyage becomes an odyssey where he meets others pursuing love and community, the very things he is running from. At sea, the stern captain teaches Jake navigation, encouraging him to master the three star fix, ...
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Driven from his rural home for insulting the parish priest, Midshipman Jake Thomas boards a freighter in New Orleans, entering the exotic world of foreign ports and life on the high seas. Jake plunges hungrily into the adventureof a sea-voyage, finding it a separate existence: authentic, ruthless, unpredictable. The voyage becomes an odyssey where he meets others pursuing love and community, the very things he is running from. At sea, the stern captain teaches Jake navigation, encouraging him to master the three star fix, even as Jake abandons his moral compass in the sultry back-alleys of the South American ports. InValparaiso, the mariner's Mecca, Jake loses his innocence, descending into an intoxicating labyrinth of drugs, pleasure and violence. Music spilled into the street and people danced in the doorways, in the alleys; their shadows maniacal. Beautiful women in all manner of erotic dress languished outside the bars. Jake's journey home is a perilous voyage into his troubled soul. Jake has marveled at wonders he has seen but now explores the inner landscape of his own troubled soul where peace of mind is illusive and where one's humanness is at once mysterious and full of beauty.
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