Seaworthy.(Seaworthy Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting)(Book review)

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***1/2 Seaworthy Adrift with William Willis in the Golden Age of Rafting By T. R. Pearson

Adventure and eccentricity on the high seas.

William Willis held many jobs and interests in his adventurous life: as lumberjack, stevedore, spiritual seeker, and novelist. At age 45, he saved a landlady's unjustly imprisoned son by journeying to Devil's Island, the penal colony made famous by Dustin Hoffman's screen portrayal in Papillon. But it is Willis's experiences rafting, inspired by Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki expedition, that Pearson chronicles with particular relish. Almost 60 ...

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