| Entry Text: | GIBSON, Walter. The Boat. 96p., illus. London: W. H. Allen; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
The author survived the torpedoing of the Rooseboom on 1st March 1942, after evacuation from Sumatra. His lifeboat was 26 days adrift in the Indian Ocean and there were only four survivors. A second edition was published in 1973. |
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