The cradle of the deep
by Joan Lowell
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About This Book
First published in 1929, Cradle of the Deep was the bestselling book that became a scandal! In 1923, Joan Lowell was an aspiring writer and rising silent film star in Hollywood. Young, beautiful, and talented, she was adored by all. Then she published her autobiography in 1929: a rip-roaring memoir of a young girl growing up on a schooner with her hearty sea captain father and a crew of salty sailors and the incredible and death-defying adventures she had traveling the world.Except…none of it was true! Born in 1902 in Berkeley, California as Helen Wagner to a middle-class family. Yes, her fath...
Chapters (41)(click to expand)
- 1 “I spit a curve in the wind”
- 2 In which an alarm clock and some dried apricots are exchanged with natives for a nurse for me. The ship becomes my cradle
- 3 “A ship is called a ‘she’ because her riggin’ costs more than her hull.”—Stitches.
- 4 In which I learn that young ladies must not take baths in gentlemen’s drinking water
- 5 Perfume on the cook’s feet and hair on my chest.—What of it?
- 6 A dead fish and a squarehead’s kiss
- 7 A runaway sea horse
- 8 We catch a female shark and I learn about women from her—
- 9 In which I learn to take a joke. Hoping you may do the same
- 10 A bucko Captain and his Bible chart for me the mysteries of sex
- 11 “The Sea gives up its dead”
- 12 A cursing contest and a hangman’s noose
- 13 Ideas about Women
- 14 I find navigating on shore full of shoals
- 15 From the region of floating mountains of ice to the Island of White Natives
- 16 The clouds came down and the sea reached up to meet them and out of their travail a sea monster was born!
- 17 Strip poker and female struck—which of course have nothing to do with each other
- 18 A shanghaied crew and scurvy are poor bunkmates in a White Squall
- 19 The Dance of the Virgins on Atafu
- 20 A Love Story—which is an end and not a beginning
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