Full Circle
Day 104: Zamboanga to Sandakan

I wander up to the bridge. The captain is 'resting'. The helmsman is beating his hands up and down on the ship's wheel in time to a Queen tape, and the first officer, a genial, portly man, secures a chart and shows me our route, south and west, parallel with the Sulu archipelago.
They ask me what I do. Playing it as low key as possible I say I'm a writer. They all seem vaguely impressed. One of them points at the book I'm holding, Robert Payne's The White Rajahs of Sarawak.
'You write this?'
I shake my head.
'What you write?'
'Er... well...'
It's too late. I've lost his attention.
'You give me your book. Yes? You give me your book. You sign it.'
Whatever I say will make no difference. I don't have any of my books with me. I have Rob Newman's Dependence Day, so I sign that and give it to him and he seems very happy.
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PALIN'S GUIDES
- Series: Full Circle
- Day: 104
- Country/sea: Pacific Ocean
- Place: Sulu Sea
- Book page no: 146
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