Friday, June 22, 2012

Crossing the Big Blue: A Young Man's Quest to Escape Boredom by Sailing the Same Ocean for Thirty Days



Today in a chart shop we came across a series of books written by the same author, about the same guy, and all had some of the best subtitles I've ever read:

The Emperor's Coloured Coat: In Which Otto Prohaska, Hero of the Habsburg Empire, Has an Interesting Time While Not Quite Managing to Avert the First World War

The Two-Headed Eagle: In Which Otto Prohaska Takes a Break as the Habsburg Empire's Leading U-boat Ace and Does Something Even More Thanklessly Dangerous

 Tomorrow the World: In which Cadet Otto Prohaska Carries the Habsburg Empire's Civilizing Mission to the Entirely Unreceptive Peoples of Africa and Oceania

...And on that note it's on to the Marquesas.

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