Slow Boats to China

Informationen zum Autor Gavin Young (1929-2001) was a journalist! writer! and briefly a member of MI6. As a journalist! he was most associated with the Observer ! being in the words of Mark Frankland's obituary 'a star foreign correspondent'. When disenchantment with journalism set in he turned to the writing of books. The two most famous ones are Slow Boats to China and its sequel Slow Boats Home . He himself had a particular affection for two later books In Search of Conrad (winner of the Thomas Cook Book Award) and A Wavering Grace . These and Beyond Lion Rock ! From Sea to Shining Sea ! Return to the Marshes and Worlds Apart are all being reissued in Faber Finds. Klappentext Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport the author! by slow boat! from Piraeus to Canton. This title presents his account that distills the people! places! smells! conversations! ships and history of the places he encountered. Zusammenfassung Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton.

Product details

• Authors: Gavin Young, Young Gavin
• Assisted by: Gavi Young (Editor), Gavin Young (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.04.2009
• EAN: 9780571251032
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25103-2
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 135 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; South East Asia, Adventure; Documentary; Faber Finds; Travelogue