Jaynes, Gregory, — Come Hell on High Water: a really sullen memoir.

NY, North Point Press, (1997). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. After 20 yrs as a national correspondent, foreign corespondent & columnist for Time, Life and The New York Times, Jaynes is. burned out. He fears the creak underfoot is not necesarily the stair and there are snarly things in his head he is afraid portend analysis so it's either 10 grand for a shrink or haul ass to Tahiti. He sets out on a cargo ship bound for the South Pacific, a Russian icebreaker, crewed by a surly bunch.