Lord Jim
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You are Jim, a cadet who has spent more nights imagining shipwrecks than surviving them, certain that books have already taught you courage. When a real collision sends the rescue cutter out into a gale, you reach the rail one push too late, and watch six other boys pull toward the drowning without you. Two years and a hospital bed later, still nursing that missed chance, you sign as chief mate on the Patna — eight hundred pilgrims, a calm sea, and a hull the engineer will not vouch for.
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- The Chance MissedTraining Ship