ERIC ATNOAUTHOR OF UNDERWAY

A SAILOR'S-EYE MEMOIR 2019

GOOD TIMES IN UNCLE SAM'S CANOE CLUB

UNDERWAY

BY ERIC ATNO

Twenty-six years in the Navy and Navy Reserve. A life spent largely at sea. And the stories that don't fit neatly into an official record.

Part memoir, part sea-story confession, Underway takes a frank, often funny, sometimes sobering look at life aboard and beyond the horizon.

STEP ABOARD
01 / THE BOOKPAGE PUBLISHING · 2019
Underway: Good Times in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club — authentic book cover featuring four naval display screens above the ocean.
AN ACCOUNT OF LIFE UNDERWAY26 YEARS / USN & USNR
A VIEW FROM BEYOND THE SHORESCROLL TO EXPLORE
AT SEAIN PEACEAT WARIN HIS OWN WORDS
01THE BOOK

NOT A TACTICAL MANUAL. NOT A TOM CLANCY NOVEL.

Life aboard, without the polish.

There are books about the Navy's ships, strategy and warfare. Eric Atno wanted to tell something else: what the long, strange experience of being a sailor actually felt like.

Drawing on his twenty-six-year career, Underway moves through the comic and the tragic, at sea and overseas, during peace and war. Its telling is candid, personal and deliberately a little sideways.

PAPERBACK222 PAGESISBN 9781684561650

02 / THE WATCH

Four windows.
One life at sea.

The book's cover offers four views across the water. Explore four ways into the life and storytelling behind Underway.

CURRENT VIEW 01 / 04

THE YEARS

A quarter-century, and then some.

Atno served in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve for twenty-six years, reaching the rank of Senior Chief Petty Officer. The book looks back on the part of that career lived on the water and far from ordinary routines.

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UNDERWAY / IN ERIC'S WORDS

“I write exactly how I speak.”
ERIC ATNOFROM THE PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR PORTRAIT Your photograph can be featured here.
YEARS OF NAVAL SERVICE

03 / MEET THE AUTHOR

Eric Atno.
Sailor first.
Storyteller always.

Eric Atno spent twenty-six years in the U.S. Navy and Navy Reserve, rising to Senior Chief Petty Officer. By his own account, much of that time was spent at sea or deployed overseas—where he was also a prolific writer.

People urged him to write a book. Years later, he did. He chose to recount his experiences through a third-person alter ego, giving himself room to tell the funny, difficult and deeply human parts of military life.

A sailor's perspective. A writer's own voice.

VFW
2022

IN THE BOOK CORNER

Noted by VFW Magazine.

Underway was featured in the May 2022 Book Corner, which identified Atno as a former senior chief operations specialist.

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04 / FIND THE BOOK

Every sea story
starts somewhere.

Get Underway: Good Times in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club in print or digital format.

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Cover of Underway by Eric AtnoERIC ATNO / UNDERWAY / 2019