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London : Viking, 2000.
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It was the obscure legend of the lying boat Corsair, recued from the Belgian Congo in an epic salvage operation, that fired Graham Coster's quest for the lost world of the flying boat. Coster's journey begins in Southampton, from where Imperial Airways' Empire boats departed to fly up the Nile on their way to South Africa, and takes him to the flying boats' old haunts in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe, from Lake Naivasha to Victoria Falls.
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LibraryThing member John5918
A fascinating look at the old flying boats, in the days before flying became a cattle-truck experience.
LibraryThing member sonofcarc
This author is fascinated to the point of obsession with the flying boat -- once the king of the air, now an endangered species. (A flying boat is not the same thing as a float plane, as you will quickly learn if you read this.) having read this book, now I am too. Full of interesting historical
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details -- e.g., the UK built its WWII long-distance scout plane (the Short Sunderland) on one of the lakes made famous by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Show Less