Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika

Name: Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
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ISBN: 9781400075263

ISBN-10: 1400075262

ISBN-13: 9781400075263

Edition: N/A

Authors: Giles Foden

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When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is water to float a ship--even if the body of water in question is a remote African lake and the enemy an intimidating fleet of German steamers. The leader of this improbable mission is Geoffrey Spicer-Simson whose navy career thus far had been distinguished by two sinkings. His seemingly impossible charge: to trek overland through the African bush hauling Mimi and Toutou--two forty-foot mahogany gunboats-with a band of cantankerous, insubordinate Scotsmen, Irishmen and Englishmen to defeat the Germans on Lake Tanganyika. With its powerfully evoked landscape, cast of hilariously colorful…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English