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The Stowaway a Novel

The Stowaway is at once a thrilling maritime adventure and a thought-provoking morality tale based on real-life events. The novel begins in the spring of 1996 when Rodolfo Miguel, a bosun on the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai, discovers a hungry and frightened pair of Romanian stowaways. He presents them to his officers, fully expecting that they'll be put to work or else dropped off at the nearest port. Instead, he and his fellow Filipino crewmen watch in silent horror as the Romanians are cast overboard in a flimsy raft only to disappear beneath the ship's wake. The Stowaway mov.

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  • "The Stowaway is at once a thrilling maritime adventure and a thought-provoking morality tale based on real-life events. The novel begins in the spring of 1996 when Rodolfo Miguel, a bosun on the Taiwanese container ship Maersk Dubai, discovers a hungry and frightened pair of Romanian stowaways. He presents them to his officers, fully expecting that they'll be put to work or else dropped off at the nearest port. Instead, he and his fellow Filipino crewmen watch in silent horror as the Romanians are cast overboard in a flimsy raft only to disappear beneath the ship's wake. The Stowaway mov."@en
  • "A Filipino bosun on a container ship risks his life and his fellow Filipino crewmates' lives when he decides to hide a Romanian stowaway after three others were set adrift on flimsy rafts by the Taiwanese officers. Based on a true story."
  • "When two Eastern European men are discovered on board the Maersk Dubai, the crew is forced to come to terms with earlier stowaways the captain put overboard on a flimsy raft to disappear in the frigid ocean."

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  • "Sea stories"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Suspense fiction"

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  • "The stowaway : [a novel]"
  • "The Stowaway a Novel"@en
  • "The stowaway"@en
  • "The stowaway"
  • "Fripassageraren"@sv
  • "The Stowaway"@en
  • "Overboord"

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