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    The Compass Book: Book Review

     A while ago and some miles off Los Angeles Light, I was sitting in my boat with water over my shoes watching the remains of a breaking sea trickle out of the cockpit footwell. I remembered that dog h...

    Robert Chave
    January 1, 1999
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