MV Logos at night in Sydney, Australia Aug 24 - Sep 10, 1979 In a number of posts I relate stories from years worked in ‘line up’ for the ship MV Logos. The job involved various assignments around the world - see line up if you wish to know more about what representing the ship and preparing …
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A Bigger Picture
Dunes Several of my blogs concern a role I once had which was commonly known as ‘line up’. Briefly the job involved making all manner of preparations (‘line up’) required for the floating bookship MV Logos to visit ports. The vessel was crewed by a diverse group of 140 volunteers from 25 nations. It was …
Strangers and Pilgrims – Coming Home
For some weeks in 1979 I visited what was then Western Samoa in the South Pacific. An independent state it became known in 1997 simply as Samoa. Not to be confused with the American territory of American Samoa which lay to the south east! W. Samoa consists mainly of two inhabited islands in the midst …
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
Crowds visiting the on board book exhibition on MV Logos in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - Jan 1987 In early 1987 Elisabeth and I were living on board the MV Logos. For both of us it had been our home previously before we got married. This latest period we had spent nearly 2 years travelling …
Poignant, Hopeful, Maybe Even Joyful
Hibiscus, national flower of Haiti. In February 1986 Jean Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier was deposed as President of Haiti and went to live in exile in France. Ordinary people were no doubt hoping that the near 30 year brutal rule of his and ‘Papa Doc’ (his father) would come to an end. However the general …
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