PAUL CARTER

SINTESIS ALUM EDICION 2005 IDIOMA CASTELLANO

The outrageous sequel to Dont Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs (She Thinks I m a Piano Player in a Whorehouse) brings more great stories from the far side of civilization - hilarious, full of humour, colourful characters and dramatic action! Just another glorious day in the oilfield for Paul Carter! He s stuck in the middle of the Russian sea on a rig staffed by a crew from Azerbaijan. The choppers are older than him and can only fly by line of sight, turning back regularly due to the weather which gets particuarly interesting when they are past the point of no return with half there fuel gone and they are committed to finding the rig in a fog that s thicker than a Big Brother housemate. The closest thing to a hotel for miles around is the Asylum , a former soviet mental institution that now houses offshore personnel en-route to the rig, where his room mates are Vodka Bob - who drinks Guinness for breakfast when he s not on the rig - Sick Boy, who snores like a pit bull being hot-waxed and Sealbasher . In his inimitable style Paul Carter regales us with his colourful adventures from the front line of thee oil industry and the far side of civilization!

A take-no-prisoners approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the worlds most remote, wild and dangerous places as a contractor in the oil business. Amazingly, hes survived (so far) to tell these stories from the edge of civilization. He 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 been served cocktails by an orangutan on an ocean freighter. And thats just his day job. Taking postings in some of the worlds wildest and most remote regions, not to mention some of the roughest rigs on the planet, Paul has worked, got into trouble, and been given serious talkings to, in locations as far-flung as the North Sea, Middle East, Borneo and Tunisia, as exotic as Sumatra, Vietnam and Thailand, and as flat-out dangerous as Columbia, Nigeria and Russia, with some of the maddest, baddest and strangest people you could ever hope not to meet.

Oi, mate, is that monstrosity diesel? From the author of the bestsellers Dont Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks Im a Piano Player in a Whorehouse and This Is Not a Drill, this is the eagerly awaited next installment of Paul Carters rollicking life.Take one mad adventurer and a motorbike that runs on bio fuel (cooking oil i.e. chip fat to you and me) and send them with one filmmaker on a road trip around Australia just to see what happens. What you get is a story full of outback characters, implausible (but true) situations, unlikely events and unfortunate breakdowns, all at a break neck pace. Never one to sit still for long, this is what Paul Carter did next.Whether youve been shocked, delighted, entertained, horrified - or all of the above - by Pauls stories whether from oil rigs or the road one thing is for sure, they are always high octane adventures.

ATTEMPTING 300KPH on an untested experimental motorcycle could be considered a perfect way to kill yourself, but Paul Carter is still, well, PAUL CARTER and danger at high speed is his second name. Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series, or starting a new business and travelling the world, or dealing with lifes more sober moments like the birth of a son or the loss of a father, Paul Carter is still the funniest man in the bar and the nicest alpha male youll ever meet as he risks all for the sake of a cracking yarn. SO STRAP YOURSELF IN and HOLD ON TIGHT for his FOURTH BOOK - we just have to hope that he wont be institutionalised before completing his fifth!

Illustrated words, games and activities The third of a series of three volumes for students of various levels. For learning English vocabulary and structures. Games and various activities are all richly illustrated. Each volume offers 14 units based on lexical themes. Each unit presents approximately 20 illustrated words. The words are then used in games and various activities: crosswords, find the word, anagrams, etc. A grammatical theme and exercises are also presented in each unit. The solutions, found in the appendix, allow the volume to be used also for self-study. Topics included: -Parts of the body II -First aid -How much? -In the garden -Cars -Trains -Flying -Hotels -Music -Films and plays -Television -Technology -Sport II -Daily actions