The Fuzzy-Wuzzy Man Quotes

“They view the government as their enemy, profit as their only friend – probably do not even see themselves as the traitors they are.”
― Andrew Wareham, The Fuzzy-Wuzzy Man

“I had rather water in a port than from some uncertain creek or river on the Malay coast where for all you know there is a village hidden a mile upriver and crapping in it.”
― Andrew Wareham, The Fuzzy-Wuzzy Man

“Paget found the tour enlightening – for the first time he realised that the ship was not a mere extension of the land, a sea-going workshop, but was an entirely different life, its own hermetic world, and that the denizens of one world did not naturally understand the other. The ship had its own language, hierarchy, theology and purpose, only tenuously related to the land-bound; the landsfolk could prate of their civilisation, but the sailor cleaved to an older, warrior code – there might be a place for a gentle Jesus on land, but the sea was the domain of Jehovah.”
― Andrew Wareham, The Fuzzy-Wuzzy Man

“Fever coast, Mr Forshaw – mangrove swamp and mud. Not worth it.” They kept a distance off the reef, well out of mosquito range.”
― Andrew Wareham, The Fuzzy-Wuzzy Man