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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse)
Paul Carter
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Description for Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse)
Paperback. A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8pp colour photos. BIC Classification: KNBP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 172. (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse). 224 pages, 8pp photos. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions, not to mention some of the roughest rigs, Paul Carter has worked, and got into trouble, in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, as exotic as Sumatra, and as flat-out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia. Here, he tells his stories. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: KNBP; WTL. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight: 256.
A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, he's survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage; almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia; watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia; lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. ... Read more
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Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857883770
SKU
V9781857883770
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-24
About Paul Carter
Paul Carter was born in England in 1969. His father's military career had the family moving all over the world. He has worked in the oil industry for fifteen years, re-locating every few years (old habits). When not getting into trouble on the rigs Paul lives in Sydney with two motorbikes and a dachshund named Colin, visiting his father in ... Read more
Reviews for Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: (She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse)
A romper-stomper of the world's oil rigs. Highly enjoyable
Herald
Full of colourful stories and anecdotes accumulated over almost two decades working the oil rigs.
TNT Magazine
A Boy's Own yarn from the front line of the oil industry.
Men's Style
Not so much a thriller as a driller, Don't Tell Mum is our ... Read more
Herald
Full of colourful stories and anecdotes accumulated over almost two decades working the oil rigs.
TNT Magazine
A Boy's Own yarn from the front line of the oil industry.
Men's Style
Not so much a thriller as a driller, Don't Tell Mum is our ... Read more