Full name: Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

Author: Paul Carter Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Travel, Memoirs, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9781741146981 1741146984

A rollicking, crazed, sometimes terrifying, usually bloody, and incredibly funny ride through one man's adventures in the oil trade Since age 18, Paul Carter has worked on oil rigs in locations as far flung as the Middle East, Columbia, the North Sea, Borneo, Tunisia, Sumatra, Vietnam, Nigeria, Russia, and many others -- and he's survived (so far!) to tell stories from the edge of civilization (places, as it happens, upon which most of our lives rely). Carter has been shot at, hijacked and held hostage, almost died of dysentery in Asia and toothache in Russia, watched a Texan lose his mind in the jungles of Asia, lost a lot of money backing a scorpion against a mouse in a fight to the death, and served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. Taking postings in some of the world's wildest and most remote regions - not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet--Carter has worked and gotten into trouble with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet. Similar books: Is It Just Me? by Miranda Hart Miss America by Howard Stern My Shit Life So Far by Frankie Boyle Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler Navel Gazing by Michael Ian Black Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney The Tao of Martha by Jen Lancaster Tough Sh*t by Kevin Smith The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman Nerd Do Well by Simon Pegg Carsick by John Waters Groucho And Me by Groucho Marx Mack the Life by Lee Mack Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange Private Parts by Howard Stern Are You Dave Gorman? by Dave Gorman McCarthy's Bar by Pete McCarthy Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky Best. State. Ever. by Dave Barry Feeding a Yen by Calvin Trillin