Prevailing Wind -- Thomas Dolby, Paperback Sociology As a Jewish boy in

As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland

the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage -- are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw

Running from the return of the Lasagna Monster That's not all

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Prevailing Wind -- Thomas Dolby, Paperback Sociology As a Jewish boy inIt is 1913, and the plutocrats of the New York Yacht Club have amassed more power and wealth than the US Treasury itself. Davey and Jacob Haskell, brothers from a poor lobster fishing community in Maine, have a single shot at greatness when they try out for the sailing crew of a NYYC millionaire's luxury racing yacht. Honor, betrayal, and the cruelty of an egomaniacal skipper put the brothers' family loyalties to the test as they set out to expose a