Mr. Krakow & JD, I am a major Nevil Shute fan. My Nevil Shute library is almost as large as my gun library. I even have bound photocopies of all of his unpublished manuscripts. Shute enthusiasts are every bit as serious about their passion as we are about fine rifles. A few have tried to follow Kieth Stewart's route from Honolulu to Tahiti & the Marquesas in their sailing craft. Many others have repeated the Flying Doctor flights from Alice Springs to Cairns in Australia in their Cessnas. We held a "Nevil Shute's 100th birthday" party in Albuquerque in January 1999 and about 400 people came from all over the world. It's sort of a literary equivalent of what MP is doing with this forum.

Richard LaVen aka Waterman