MV Logos Hope, world's largest floating book fair that travels between countries, will return to Oman on July 13, according to the vessel's itinerary plan.
This is the third time that the floating book fair is visiting Oman after its last visits to in 2011 and 2013.
The vessel, with massive moving collection of books from across the world, which will dock at the Port Sultan Qaboos until July 24. The range of books that she houses varies from atlases, education, and dictionary to titles on medicine, science, education, cookery, sports, arts, and languages and faith, besides children’s titles.
Later, the book fair will sail to Salalah where it will call on at the Port of Salalah on July 27 and be stationed there until August 3 from where she will be heading to Seychelles from August 10 to 17 before heading to Mombasa in Kenya.
On an average, the book fair receives one million visitors on board every year with more than 5,000 titles on sale.
According to the statistics, the book fair has so far visited over 140 ports in more than 70 countries and sold more than 10,000,000 different books.
MV Logos Hope is a ship operated as a part of a faith based organisations by Gute Bücher für Alle. Built in 1973 as the ferry MV Gustav Vasa for service between Malmö and Travemünde and later operated as the MV Norröna providing a ferry service to the Faroe Islands, she was later converted into a moving book fair, the seafaring book fair is operated by the German non-profit group Good Books for All (GBA).
She has welcomed 49 million people from across 480 different ports in more than 150 countries. The nearly 350 crew and other staff from more than 65 different nationalities are all volunteers serving in their professional capacity and include from seamen to cooks and from engineers to nurses and electricians.
Entry in to the floating book fair is free of cost and people will be guided through various genres and groups of books onboard by the volunteers.
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