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Oriental Endeavour (Paperback, New)
Loot Price: R583
Discovery Miles 5 830
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Oriental Endeavour (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R583
Discovery Miles 5 830
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As a sequel to the successful Rats, Rust and Two Old Ladies, the
story of Oriental Endeavour begins when the author delivers a
tugboat from Avonmouth to Buchanan in war-torn Liberia. Four years
later, he is asked to command one of two tugboats for delivery from
West Africa to Singapore and, despite being renamed, he soon
realises this is the same boat. Along with its sister, Oriental Tug
No. 2 has been terribly neglected whilst in Liberia and requires
extensive repairs at Las Palmas. The 11-day trip becomes
particularly memorable due to a funnel fire, the discovery of a
stowaway, a wheelhouse that is no longer water-tight and bad
weather. En route to Malta they are battered by a violent storm and
Roland, the unfriendly rat, is sighted. After a short stay in
fly-infested Djibouti, they successfully avoid Somali pirates in
the Gulf of Aden and attempt their first crossing of the Indian
Ocean which is thwarted by further machinery failure and partial
flooding of some cabins. After 13 weeks they arrive in a muddy
backwater creek in Singapore where the owner mysteriously declines
to show his face. Before sailing from Buchanan the ships were
visited by employees of timber companies involved in gun-running
and the illegal stripping of Liberia's hardwood forests. Were blood
diamonds from Sierra Leone concealed on board? Ex-President Charles
Taylor of Liberia is on trial at the Hague - will the truth ever be
known?
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