Beyond Lion Rock - The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways

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 Tells the story of an empire of the air! the Cathay Pacific Airways. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of an empire of the air, the Cathay Pacific Airways.

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: 18.06.2009
• EAN: 9780571251988
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25198-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, Hong Kong, Transport industries, Aerospace & Air Transport Industries