Distant Archipelagos: Memories of Malaya

by Peter Moss

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595773621
• ISBN13: 9780595773626
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"