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Richard Regan

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http://www.orientalvagabonds.com

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Richard Regan joined the British Merchant Marine in 1970, at a time when the Red Ensign still flew at the stern of a quarter of the world’s shipping. Seeing service in freighters, tankers and passenger ships, followed by thirty-five years working ashore for shipping companies and shipbuilders, Richard has visited almost every corner of the globe and amassed a wealth of sights, settings, experiences, and characters that are the inspiration for his writing. 'Oriental Vagabonds' is his first novel, and while set a generation prior his own career, some of the ports and locations described had changed little when Richard first visited them, and the aging tramp ship at the center of the story is little different from one in which he twice circumn ...more

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	Oriental Vagabonds: A Tale of a Far East Tramp (Bill Rowden Book 1) 4.48 avg rating — 42 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The clang of the wheelhouse bell marked the passing of another half-hour. Four bells, two o’clock in the afternoon watch and an even number. I reached for the tin of Senior Service. Mid-September, late summer but, deep inside the Arctic circle, with Spitzbergen only one hundred miles to the north-east, flurries of snow whirled about the ship and t Read more of this blog post »

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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

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