Giles Foden: Mimi and Toutou Go Forth

Cover: 9780141009841 | Mimi and Toutou Go Forth | Giles Foden | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2005

Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.

Sprache: Englisch

27,40 €

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:

Beschreibung

At the start of World War One German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee' as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic advantage. In June 1915 a force of 28 men was despatched from Britain on a vast journey. Their orders were to take control of the lake. To reach it they had to haul two motorboats with the unlikely names of Mimi and Toutou through the wilds of the Congo.

The 28 were a strange bunch -- one was addicted to Worcester sauce another was a former racing driver -- but the strangest of all of them was their skirt-wearing tattoo-covered commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. Whatever it took even if it meant becoming the god of a local tribe he was determined to cover himself in glory. But the Germans had a surprise in store for Spicer-Simson in the shape of their secret 'supership' the Graf von Gotzen . . .

Unearthing new German and African records the prize-winning author of The Last King of Scotland retells this most unlikely of true-life tales with his customary narrative energy and style.

Fitzcarraldo meets Heart of Darkness this is rich vivid and flashmanesque in its appeal - military history at its most absorbing and entertaining

Über den Autor

Giles Foden

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780141009841
ISBN-10:	0141009845
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Foden, Giles
Hersteller:	Penguin
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	198 x 129 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Giles Foden
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.07.2005
Gewicht:	0,404 kg