Eight Bells at Salamander – Lawrence Green

Eight Bells at Salamander Lawrence Green

It is a pleasure to find a South African seafaring book which does not depend on the tiresome old narratives of the Grosvenor, the Birkenhead, Waratah and other wornout themes.

Eight Bells at Salamander contains fascinating material which will be new to almost every reader. The authors own voyages in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean, local legends and many informants in Cape Town, Saldanha and remote places along the South African coast all gave inspiration for this book. His voyages of discovery took him recently to London, where he carried out research in the British Museum library, the Admiralty library and the Greenwich Nautical Museum. Then he revisited South America.

Now at last he is able to present an authentic book of unknown sea mysteries, treasure ships, prison ships, stolen ships, lost and abandoned ships along the South African coasts, and dramas on the lonely isles in African waters. One of the most interesting chapters deals with the ocean trek which led to the formation of the Afrikaner colony in the Argentine.

Lawrence Green is South Africas most consistent writer. He works slowly, never publishing more than one book a year; but every book he has written since World War II has been a best-seller, and his sales are still rising. The secret of his success will be found once again in Eight Bells at Salamander . . . a vivid style and the determined effort to secure new material wherever he goes.

All his work bears a strong touch of originality, and Lawrence Green is still telling the stories that other writers have missed.

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