No traveller returns : a novel

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Label

No traveller returns : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Louis L'Amour with Beau L'Amour

Creator

• L'Amour, Louis, 1908-1988

Contributor

• L'Amour, Beau

Subject

• Sea stories
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive naphtha. The cargo alone makes the journey perilous, with the crew aware that one careless moment could lead to disaster. But another sort of peril haunts the Lichenfield. Even beyond their day-to-day coexistence, the lives of the crew are mysteriously intertwined. Though each has his own history, dreams and jealousies, longing and rage, all are connected by a deadly web of chance and circumstance. Some are fleeing the past; others chase an unknown destiny. A few are driven by the desire for adventure, while their shipmates cling to the Lichenfield as their only true home. In their hearts, these men, as well as the women and children they have left behind, carry the seeds of salvation or destruction. And all of them--kind or cruel, strong or broken--are bound to the fate of the vessel that carries them toward an ever-darkening horizon. Inspired by Louis L'Amour's own experiences as a merchant seaman, No Traveller Returns is a revelatory work by a world-renowned author--and a brilliant illustration of a writer discovering his literary voice"--

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Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Louis L'Amour's lost treasures