Trustee from the Toolroom - Softcover

Shute, Nevil

 
9780099529989: Trustee from the Toolroom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 009952998X ISBN 13: 9780099529989
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

**AS SEEN ON BBC TWO'S BETWEEN THE COVERS**

‘An incredible adventure story…a book that will live with you forever’ Richard Osman (on BBC Two’s Between the Covers).

Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task.

When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2,000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters. His adventures and the colourful characters he meets on his journey make this book a marvellous tale of courage and friendship.

'Something about this author's calm, deliberate style creates unexpected excitement... we are warmed by the justice and sheer pleasure of it' Independent

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Über die Autorin bzw. den 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).

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
009952998X
ISBN 13 
9780099529989
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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