The Probably True Adventures of Sparky Malone is a roller coaster story of one man's life and adventures around the world, starting in 1941 and finishing seventy years later. During those seventy years we follow Sparky through childhood, always up to some sort of mischief, often in trouble in a harmless and amusing sort of way. Then we watch him achieve his ambition of going to sea in the British Merchant Navy, despite much resistance by...