Slow Boats to China - Softcover

Young

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ISBN 10: 0525481060 ISBN 13: 9780525481065

Publisher: E P Dutton (1st edition), 1984

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By tramp steamer, ferry, oil tanker, schooner, and Arab dhow, Young makes his way from Piraeus to Canton in this modern-day seafaring adventure

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13 1.5-hour cassettes

About the Author:

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.

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