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Wallace Boys #7
Crash in the Caprivi
Muyunda invites his two friends, the Wallace Boys, to Mongu in Western Zambia to witness the colourful Kuomboka Ceremony in which the Lozi people move from their homes on the Barotse Plain flooded by the rising Zambezi River to their winter quarters. Muyunda himself is a paddler in the ceremony during which he sees someone behaving very strangely; when this same person takes the same aeroplane flight the boys are on, Muyunda realizes that something very strange is going on.
This is confirmed when the man orders the pilot of the Beaver aircraft to fly along the narrow corridor of land known as the Caprivi Strip to the Etosha Pan in Namibia.
After a hair-raising landing on the flat surface of the salt pan, the boys find themselves up against Isaacs and Lambert once again!
The return flight, now with a hoard of diamonds, crashes. The pilot is out of action with a broken leg and Bruce is taken hostage, to ensure Isaacs and Lambert’s safety after they cross the Kalahari. However, Bruce is spat in the eyes by a spitting cobra, and the men abandon their now blind hostage.
A Bushman boy of their own age leads Nigel and Muyunda across the Kalahari to the Okavango Delta (check out this very good National Geographic video) in Botswana where a dramatic chase ends the flight of Isaacs and Lambert who have commandeered a swamp buggy. Once again, Scottie and his Fox Moth biplane, this time with floats, have got in on the act!
This is confirmed when the man orders the pilot of the Beaver aircraft to fly along the narrow corridor of land known as the Caprivi Strip to the Etosha Pan in Namibia.
After a hair-raising landing on the flat surface of the salt pan, the boys find themselves up against Isaacs and Lambert once again!
The return flight, now with a hoard of diamonds, crashes. The pilot is out of action with a broken leg and Bruce is taken hostage, to ensure Isaacs and Lambert’s safety after they cross the Kalahari. However, Bruce is spat in the eyes by a spitting cobra, and the men abandon their now blind hostage.
A Bushman boy of their own age leads Nigel and Muyunda across the Kalahari to the Okavango Delta (check out this very good National Geographic video) in Botswana where a dramatic chase ends the flight of Isaacs and Lambert who have commandeered a swamp buggy. Once again, Scottie and his Fox Moth biplane, this time with floats, have got in on the act!
- GenresAdventure
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First published June 1, 1993
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About the author
Duncan Watt
26 books1 followerBorn near Victoria Falls in what was then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, Watt, the only child of British parents, traveled to more than 80 countries around the world. Finally settling in Singapore in 1976.
He worked as a teacher and administrator at the British Council until he retired in 1992.
For 16 years, he read the prime time news on Channel 5 for the then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. He also hosted an afternoon program on Symphony 92.4, playing light classics, until 2004.
His 20-book Wallace Boys series was set in far-flung places such as Kariba, Zimbabwe, the Skeleton Coast and the Scottish Highlands. He researched the locations for his books as thoroughly as possible, making it a point not to write anything he himself had not experienced.
Watt was diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2016. He died on 7 September 2017 at the age of 74.
He worked as a teacher and administrator at the British Council until he retired in 1992.
For 16 years, he read the prime time news on Channel 5 for the then Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. He also hosted an afternoon program on Symphony 92.4, playing light classics, until 2004.
His 20-book Wallace Boys series was set in far-flung places such as Kariba, Zimbabwe, the Skeleton Coast and the Scottish Highlands. He researched the locations for his books as thoroughly as possible, making it a point not to write anything he himself had not experienced.
Watt was diagnosed with liver cancer in June 2016. He died on 7 September 2017 at the age of 74.
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February 22, 2020
In this book Nigel and Bruce Wallace are invited to a ceremony that their friend Muyunda is participating in. After the ceremony, the boys take a flight out of a small airport that ends abruptly with the crash in the Caprivi that gave the book its title. The boys unexpectedly travel to Botswana and into the inhospitable environment that is the Kalahari Desert. This book has a lot of African animals, like the previous books that were set in Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as interesting people.
I don't like footnotes in fiction books but there are not all that many footnotes in this book. Since this book was set inland, the author was unable to use his favorite footnote telling the reader that "for'ard" is a nautical term meaning "forward." There was a bit of interesting information in the back of the book about the language of the Bushmen.
I don't like footnotes in fiction books but there are not all that many footnotes in this book. Since this book was set inland, the author was unable to use his favorite footnote telling the reader that "for'ard" is a nautical term meaning "forward." There was a bit of interesting information in the back of the book about the language of the Bushmen.
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