Beyond the Black Stump

Informationen zum Autor Nevil Shute was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing, London. After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School, he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel, Marazan , in 1926. In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons. After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957). Klappentext If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. However! when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise. Zusammenfassung If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise.

Product details

• Authors: Nevil Shute, SHUTE NEVIL, Nevil Shute Norway
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2009
• EAN: 9780099529996
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952999-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Western Australia, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Classic fiction, United States of America, USA, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Classic fiction: general and literary