CAPE TOWN TO ZANZIBAR is a rollicking adventure tale about the exploits of a South African seaman in the British Navy during the early days of WWII. Assigned to the merchant steamship Morning Star, operating in the waters off the coast of Madagascar, Tony Blondell thought he was in for a routine mission transporting cargo, war materiel, and passengers through the Mozambique Channel to Ceylon and Kenya. What he didn`t count on was the submarine lurking just below the surface.

In an instant, seaman Blondell--the "colonial" as the British sailors called him--finds himself clinging to the wreckage of his torpedoed ship in shark-infested waters. For most, it would have been a death sentence. But for Tony Blondell, it was just the break he was waiting for and it wouldn`t be long before he would be master of his own ship, deeply in love, and richer than he ever imagined a colonial seaman could be.