Cruise of the Pintail: A Journal

by James R. Turner, Robert L. Winans, Fonville Winans

In 1932 a young Fonville Winans (1911--1992) left his home in Fort Worth and set out on the waterways of south Louisiana searching for adventure and fortune. This journal recounts, in his own words, how the now-renowned photographer and his two friends -- first mate Bob Owen and second mate Don Horridge -- ventured onto untamed Louisiana waters aboard a leaking, rudderless sailboat, the Pintail. Fonville was shooting footage for a movie that he felt...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807139858
• ISBN13: 9780807139851
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.3"