He dropped money bags from low-flying biplanes on remote rubber
plantations and tin mines, spent nights in deep jungle longhouses,
aboard fishing kelongs manned by aboriginals far out at sea, in
mosquito-infested swamps collecting malarial parasites and on
beaches where giant leatherback turtles came to lay their eggs. He
accompanied commonwealth troops hunting for terrorists on the
Thai-Malaysian border, flew reconnaissance patrols seeking guerilla
camps and escorted Field Marshal Templer on his return visit to the
country he had liberated from communist insurrection. He met Lady
Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the architect of India's independence,
interviewed actors Orson Welles and Sir Donald Wolfit, and was
conversing with the French Ambassador when a ghost walked into the
room. nearly everyone ended up miscast. He helped conceal an
escaped prisoner in a hilarious fake jail-break, trailed the Sultan
of Pahang on a regal progress through Malaysia's largest state and
befriended one of President Soekarno's infamous red beret
parachutists, sent on a sabotage mission during the height of
Indonesian confrontation. circuit and the city life for the simple
pleasures of the kampong and the open road, learning the language
and feeling his way towards what French author Henry Fauconnier had
called the Soul of Malaya. With Distant Archipelagos, Peter Moss
follows up his account of an Anglo-Indian childhood, in Bye-Bye
Blackbird, by painting a vivid portrait of another vanished world.
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