pp.489 clean tight copy foxing to text pages covers show slight corner wear and rubbing to edges crease down spine good reading copy only Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Slow Boats to China

Publisher

Penguin Books Canada, Limited/Viking, Toronto, ON, Canada

Publication Date

1986

Language

English

ISBN 10

0140062394

ISBN 13

9780140062397

Binding

Soft cover

Illustrator

Salim

Condition

Good

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Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton. His odyssey teemed with excitement, adventure and colour. Gavin Young's account memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history of the places he encountered in what is his most famous book. The sequel, Slow Boats Home, is also reissued in Faber Finds. 'An unusual and fascinating book.' Hammond Innes, Guardian 'Storms, fleas, pirates, bad food and bureaucrats ... My Young suffered what he did to entertain us.' Anthony Burgess, Observer

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