V S Paterson: 2 books

Fremantle is a bustling town these days, with its harbour filled with troop and battle ships and the largest submarine fleet of all the American, British and Dutch navies. Thirteen-year-old Tom is fascinated by the sailors and soldiers that he meets, the battle scars they show and war tales they tell....

The continuous and rapid improvement of tourism around the whole world and the increasing emigration of peoples from the developing countries to the "old continents" have changed the classical image of tropical diseases, which are now seen more frequently in temperate and highly developed...