Turpin

by Stephen Jones

Hardcover

First published November 1, 1968

About the author

Stephen Jones is owner of West Mystic Wooden Boat Company, which repairs and builds wooden boats of all sorts, and author of eight other books, including Turpin, Drifting, Backwaters, and Harbor of Refuge, recently reissued in paperback. In a long career spent with and on boats, he served in the Coast Guard, worked on lobster boats, and sailed a schooner in the West Indies. For the last 30 years he has been on the University of Connecticut's maritime branch faculty, where he has taught courses on literature, the environment, and aspects of the sea.