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A Merchant Navy novel by Richard Woodman set in the 1990s
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ENDANGERED SPECIES

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ENDANGERED SPECIES

published 1992
by
Little, Brown and Company (UK) Limited, London

ISBN 0 356 20428 6

A blue cloth bound book with silver lettering to the spine in NEAR FINE condition in a NEAR FINE condition unclipped dust wrapper.

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ENDANGERED SPECIES
Richard Woodman

Both Captain John Mackinnon and his ship are embarking on their last voyage. The old cargo-liner Matthew Flinders, an out-dated vessel belonging to a once-large shipping company, is bound for the breakers, and its captain is heading, with very mixed feelings, for retirement. Endangered species together, relics of a proud past, they symbolize
the irreversible, quiet decline of the British merchant fleet.

But this journey to Hong Kong is destined to be anything but quiet. Internal tensions amongst the crew provoke unrest and lead to a navigation error — an error that steers them straight into the violent, destructive path of Typhoon David. Suddenly, the crew of the Matthew Flinders are no longer fighting for their livelihood, but for their very lives.
Yet there are other lives at stake on the same seas, lives which John Mackinnon feels compelled to protect—with explosive results. When he picks up a boatload of Vietnamese refugees fleeing to Hong Kong, he sets in motion a train of events that will lead to mutiny, to confrontation with the Hong Kong authorities, and to the greatest challenge
of his career...

Powerful and polemic, ENDANGERED SPECIES is both an exhilarating tale of maritime adventure and a prophetic view of men condemned to the wasteland by the market economy. In John Mackinnon, the author has created a realistic, bleakly heroic figure, driven to the repudiation of many of the rules that have governed his life.

The author

Born in London in 1944, Richard Woodman crewed in a Tall Ships race before becoming an indentured midshipman in cargo-liners at the age of sixteen. He has sailed in a variety of ships, including weather ships, lighthouse tenders and trawlers, serving from apprentice to captain. He remains a professional sailor, commanding an offshore support vessel. Richard Woodman is the creator of Nathaniel Drinkwater, whose adventures are set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Woodman's obsession with the sea is all-consuming; as well as 'wooden-walls', he has written about tea-clippers and cargo-liners, and in his spare time he sails an elderly gaff cutter with his wife and two children.

In 1978, with a work of original maritime history, Richard Woodman won The Marine Society's Barbara Harmer Award. He is a member of the Society for Nautical Research and the Navy Records Society.
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