School of Hard Knots: A Citizen Sailor Goes to Sea

(CreateSpace) The three years that the author spent aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer during the Vietnam era were the most intense and formative of his adult life. In this memoir about that time he recounts his experiences as a sailor — from running aground and colliding with another ship to being hit by enemy fire — and the daily challenges of living on a tightly packed ship. He also describes re-entering civilian life. Abernathy is an architect living and working in New York. School of Hard Knots is available online from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and CreateSpace.