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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 Collects some of the best of the author's journalism. Zusammenfassung This volume collects the best of Gavin Young's journalism. These pieces, by turn elegant, vivid and compassionate, display his acute understanding of the varied worlds in which we live. 'Young is a born raconteur.
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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.
