Word: staysail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Isabel and the Sea will make even a coal miner imagine himself "running free under number-two jib, staysail, mainsail, and mizzen . . . setting course for the volcanic island of Stromboli." In addition to nautical charm, it is loaded to the gunwales with deft and lively pictures of European life and manners-pictures which unroll as on sensitive film as Truant weaves her way across a continent...
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