STEAMING TO BAMBOOLA is a story of the author's time at sea. He tells first-hand about typhoons, cargoes, smuggling, mid-ocean burials, rescues, stowaways, hard places, hard drinking and hard romance. It is the tale of a ship and her crew, men fated to wander for a living--always steaming to, but never quite reaching, Bamboola. Christopher Buckley, formerly the managing editor and roving editor of Esquire, has written for The New York Times, The American Spectator, New York Magazine and the London Evening Standard.