Famous book on the history of the flying boats. Graham Coster's quest for the lost world of the flying boat. The obscure legend of the flying boat Corsair, rescued from the Belgian Congo in an epic salvage operation, His journey begins in Southampton, from where Imperial Airways' Empire boats departed to fly up the Nile on their way to South Africa, and takes him to the flying boats' old haunts in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe, from Lake Naivasha to Victoria Falls. Paperback.