The Paper Tiger, Inc. edition of The Seafarers
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With his pending demobilization only a couple of weeks away, British Lieutenant Donald Wolfe, like so many other young men and women serving in the Second World War, was considering what to do next.
For eighteen months he had commanded Motor Torpedo Boat 1029, successfully defending the English Channel against the deadly German E-Boats. At twenty five years old, and after six years in the Navy, the war had finally come to an end. The sea, ships, and Navy life was the only life Donald knew. Was he to spend the remainder of his working days in an office, buried behind a desk, drawing a modest income as his father had for so many years? A chance encounter with British Wren Jean Porter would not only lead to surprising discoveries of this hardworking and thoughtful young lady's background, but would set his future on a course he never expected. |
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Nevil Shute wrote two versions of The Seafarers, sometime during the years of 1946-47, but decided against publishing either. However, he followed up with novels using components of the story, first, in an unfinished novel entitled Blind Understanding, written in 1948, and later in the published novel Requiem For a Wren (published as The Breaking Wave in the U.S.). The Seafarers, was published for the first time in 2002, by The Paper Tiger, Inc. through permission of the Trustees of the estate of Nevil Shute. Shute, Nevil (2002) The Seafarers, The Paper Tiger, Inc. |
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The Paper Tiger edition of The Seafarers is a print-on-demand book. According to the publisher, "there is really no first printing, in the traditional sense", as that the format is digitized. This being the case, there are no distinguishing characteristics between books printed on different dates at the present. |
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