LoginMimi and Toutou's Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
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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.
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 14 March 2006
ISBN-10 : 1400075262 | ISBN-13: 9781400075263
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Release date: 14 March 2006
ISBN-10 : 1400075262 | ISBN-13: 9781400075263
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