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Four Times a Scapegoat by Douglas Harvey (Hardcover, 2005)

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'Four Times a Scapegoat' is the remarkable true account of Captain Douglas Harvey's life at sea, taking in a great swathe of one man's unexpectedly fascinating career aboard gas and chemical tankers. From the beginning the reader is immersed in the seedy, rough and frequently alarming world of merchant shipping. Harvey employs a cast of hilarious characters to bring this expose of life as a tanker captain into sharp focus. It is a tale of crooked port officials, double dealing and guile - not least on the part of ship owners - with Captain Harvey frequently taking the rap for the multiple failings. However, 'Four Times a Scapegoat' also captures the lighter side of life at sea and describes the devilishly ingenious practical jokes the crew play on each other to while away the hours. In one insane stunt, 'Blunderman', Captain Harvey's first chief officer and personal albatross, fills a port official's car with almost a tonne of dry powder fired at high pressure from the ship's fire extinguisher. Indeed, it is the farcical activities of 'Ivor the Engine', 'Ten Knot Tony', 'The Poison Dwarf' and the irrepressible 'Blunderman' that will, by turns, entertain and alarm the reader with their staggering ineptitude. More seriously, Captain Harvey also reveals the scandalous attitudes towards the environment prevalent in the chemical industry and appallingly low standards of safety. The reader will find 'Four Times a Scapegoat' is both a damning indictment of the merchant shipping industry and an hilarious read.

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Melrose Books
ISBN-13
9781905226153
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95539340

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Book Title
Four Times a Scapegoat
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Author
Douglas Harvey
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Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
475 Pages

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United Kingdom

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