Download e-book for kindle: A Leap to Freedom: Boston Harbor 1989 by Lynda Healey

By Lynda Healey

within the predawn hours of January five, 1989, Edziu Polonka stands at the deck of the Kantar, a fishing trawler from Communist Poland, anchored in Boston Harbor. The trawler awaits the arriving of a refueling barge. Edziu, one among its crewmen, awaits the instant whilst he can hop over the ship’s rail and onto the yankee barge under to hunt political asylum; he awaits his jump to freedom.

Edziu’s trip to that second at the Kantar's deck takes him via a chaotic youth because the son of a Communist celebration authentic, a deadly existence at sea, and the chaos of his personal grownup lifestyles. it's a trip complex through a Communist political approach the place the mere advice of disloyalty can result in bad outcomes, specially if that recommendation comes out of your politically hooked up wife.

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Within the predawn hours of January five, 1989, Edziu Polonka stands at the deck of the Kantar, a fishing trawler from Communist Poland, anchored in Boston Harbor. The trawler awaits the coming of a refueling barge. Edziu, one in all its crewmen, awaits the instant whilst he can hop over the ship’s rail and onto the yank barge less than to hunt political asylum; he awaits his jump to freedom.

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