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Half Pass Six: The Arcturus Expedition, 1925

Half Pass Six: The Arcturus Expedition, 1925

Lockhart, Barbara

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ISBN13: 9798998961106
Publisher: Secant Publishing LLC
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.47
Language: English
Bremerhaven, Germany, 1919. A young, desperately poor German father leaves his small family to seek treatment for the poison gas that scalded his lungs on the battlefields of World War I. He never returns. Only his last, blood-stained pillowcase remains. His family is bereft.

Brooklyn, 1925. That dead father's son, Willi Rohrbein, illegal, without papers, sneaks into New York harbor on a ship from Bremerhaven where he has been stowed away by friends of his uncle. He reunites with his mother and older sister, who had already come to the U.S. legally, only to be shoved out the door after a few days. His detection could bring the whole family down once again.

Sargasso Sea and Galapagos Islands, 1925. Willi, now sixteen, finds himself usefully employed as a mess boy on one of the most celebrated voyages of the day - a scientific expedition to discover and catalog thousands of new specimens, explore the ocean depths with mile-long nets, and help seal the case for Darwin's theory of evolution. Willi knows how to peel potatoes and wash pots and pans, but he is mystified by the marine biology happening all around him. He understands very little English.

Long Island, 1958. William Rohrbein, established in his own home, supporting his own family, long-since legal in his documentation, receives a Christmas gift from his oldest daughter that bewilders him at first. It is a beautiful original edition of The Arcturus Adventure, a bestseller published in 1926 by William Beebe, the Jacques Cousteau of his day.

Willi has always admired, almost worshipped Beebe, but had little comprehension of the scientific breakthroughs happening on a weekly, sometimes daily and hourly, basis, in the Galapagos expedition that Beebe led and Willi served as mess boy.

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