The Boat - Singapore Escape - Cannibalism at Sea (Paperback)

In 1942 a ship carrying 500 escapees from Japanese-occupied Singapore set sail from Padang for Ceylon. Halfway to safety she was torpedoed and sank. Amidst the horror and confusion, only one lifeboat was launched-a lifeboat built to carry twenty-eight but to which 135 souls now looked to for salvation. For twenty-six days she drifted across the Indian Ocean. For twenty-six days, cannibalism, murder, heroism and selfsacrifice drifted with her. When the lifeboat finally ran aground on the island of Sipora, off Sumatra, only four had survived: two Javanese seamen, a Chinese girl, Doris Lim, and Walter Gibson of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. The Boat is Walter Gibson's true account of that horrific event. He captures vividly the mental trauma, the physical pain, the decision to kill or be killed but above all, the determination not to die.

General

Imprint:	Monsoon Books
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	November 2007
Authors:	Walter Gibson
Dimensions:	202 x 135 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-981-05-8301-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	981-05-8301-X
Barcode:	9789810583019

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