The Summer of '72
Three young men and a gritty, hard-edged captain are shoehorned
into a 32-foot fishing boat in the vast, cold waters of Alaska. This
is the setting for the fascinating reminiscences of Ted Soderberg
about his long summer college vacation in 1972. Jaded with
the remnants of psychedelic hippie life in San Francisco, Ted
chooses to spend the summer months not living the easy life on
the beaches of Cancun or St Petersburg, but enduring the harsh,
exhausting conditions onboard a commercial purse seiner in
Southern Alaska.

Hilarious and awe-inspiring by turns, Soderberg narrates the story
of his experiences with a wry voice, and his relationships with the
crew, and hazardous encounters both at sea and on dry land,
make for a thrilling and fulfilling read.
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The Summer of '72
Three young men and a gritty, hard-edged captain are shoehorned
into a 32-foot fishing boat in the vast, cold waters of Alaska. This
is the setting for the fascinating reminiscences of Ted Soderberg
about his long summer college vacation in 1972. Jaded with
the remnants of psychedelic hippie life in San Francisco, Ted
chooses to spend the summer months not living the easy life on
the beaches of Cancun or St Petersburg, but enduring the harsh,
exhausting conditions onboard a commercial purse seiner in
Southern Alaska.

Hilarious and awe-inspiring by turns, Soderberg narrates the story
of his experiences with a wry voice, and his relationships with the
crew, and hazardous encounters both at sea and on dry land,
make for a thrilling and fulfilling read.
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The Summer of '72

The Summer of '72

by Theodore Carl Soderberg
The Summer of '72

The Summer of '72

by Theodore Carl Soderberg

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Three young men and a gritty, hard-edged captain are shoehorned
into a 32-foot fishing boat in the vast, cold waters of Alaska. This
is the setting for the fascinating reminiscences of Ted Soderberg
about his long summer college vacation in 1972. Jaded with
the remnants of psychedelic hippie life in San Francisco, Ted
chooses to spend the summer months not living the easy life on
the beaches of Cancun or St Petersburg, but enduring the harsh,
exhausting conditions onboard a commercial purse seiner in
Southern Alaska.

Hilarious and awe-inspiring by turns, Soderberg narrates the story
of his experiences with a wry voice, and his relationships with the
crew, and hazardous encounters both at sea and on dry land,
make for a thrilling and fulfilling read.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012858320
Publisher: American Book Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/22/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 276
File size: 313 KB

About the Author

Born in Brattleboro Vermont, raised in Scarsdale/NewRochell New York, and having attended high school in Newtown Connecticut, Soderberg then moved to Marin county California. In 1967 he enlisted in the Navy. After being attached to a Seabee Battalion for two years in Japan and Vietnam, was discharged and returned to attend the College of Marin in Kentfield California, and San Francisco State. During college summer breaks he worked as a commercial fisherman in Alaska, and returned to California as a proper landlubber to sell high dollar automobiles for thirteen years. After a horrific motorcycle accident, which left him virtually unscathed, and generally bored with life on the beach, at the age of 38 enlisted in the US Navy again; and joined a Special Boat Unit in Vallejo California. In 1989 joined the Merchant Marines as an Ablebodied seaman/Bosun. In 1990 Soderberg was on a ship during operation Desert Storm that struck an underwater seamount nine miles off the coast of Oman which gave him material for his first book Uncharted Waters. When not at sea, in between ships, he has worked with SAG Screen Actors Guild as a Hollywood extra, and today continues to sail as a merchant marine with the SUP, Sailors Union of the Pacific.
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