David Baboulene runs away to sea in a cloud of romantic dust for the first of his globetrotting adventures. His journey takes him across the world and back, from New Orleans and Houston in America to the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Jamaica, through the Panama Canal to Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, then back across the Pacific - through the Gilbert and Solomon islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Azores - to a triumphant homecoming in Liverpool. But despite the laughs, the real journey in this strangely moving tale takes him all the way... from a boy to a man.
As well as completing his Deck Officer Cadetship in the British Merchant Navy, David Baboulene has been a welder, as radio DJ, a cabbie, an award-winning scriptwriter and a published songwriter; he also made a million in the IT boom in the nineties and lost it all again, goddammit. He performs a one-man show telling stories from his books.
Title: Ocean Boulevard: Adventures on the High Seas
Author: Baboulene, David
ISBN: 9781840245905
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Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2006-07-02
Number of Pages: 320
Weight: 0.2995 kg
'David Baboulene is a seriously funny man with a great gift for story telling. One of the funniest books I have ever read.' Spirit FM 'This truly absorbing and at times astonishing tale will have you laughing out loud... 'Windy' Baboulene has an engaging, informative and gripping style... a real page-turner.' In Touch Magazine 'Interesting, raucous and very, very funny to the point that some bits will make your eyes water. When I got to the end it was like saying goodbye to an old friend. The story on Barbados is one of the funniest I've ever read.' TalkSport 'Ocean Boulevard is an affectionately written biographic account that makes you laugh until you cry. If you only read one book this year make sure this is it!' Hawkins Bazarre (www.hawkin.com) 'David has documented a period of UK maritime history that is sadly now past. A raunchy and hilarious series of adventures and anecdotes.' The Argus
