Circuses Sailing Ships Author:Norman C. Getchell, Nelson F. Getchell Recollections of a runaway New England boy as told to his son. — "Among other adventures, this turn-of-the-century teenage boy was run out of town behind a club-wielding elephant, survived a fiery shipwreck and a week adrift in the south Atlantic, and lived for a season on an exotic island in the Indian Ocean. During all this period his family in... more » Maine had no idea where he was, and he didn't contact them until he was a grown man, after a bizarre brush with death in New York City."