High Seas: A Memoir of San Francisco, Vietnam, and Deadly Cargo

Roberto Loiederman

In the mid-1960s, before GPS and global tracking, a young man could walk into a shipping hall, sign a paper, and be bound for war by sundown. Roberto Loiederman did precisely that. One day, he was dropping acid in a legendary San Francisco apartment...

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Opening

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Introduction

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Chapter 1: Cave 7

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Chapter 2: Call Me Maynard

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Chapter 3: Maynard at Sea

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Chapter 4: Bangkok, Subic, and the Edge of the World

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Chapter 5: Disneyland for the Weird

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Chapter 6: The Search for George

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Chapter 7: Back to Sea

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Chapter 8: Lucky and Loaded

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Chapter 9: Missing the Ship

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Chapter 10: Death of the Hippie

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Chapter 11: The Del Alba and a Day with Dana Stone

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Chapter 12: When the Mooring Lines Snap

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Chapter 13: The Freest Guy on the Planet

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Chapter 14: Dropping Anchor

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Epilogue

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Closing

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