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20 produkter
Slow Boats to China
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
304 kr
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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 …
Slow Boats Home
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
337 kr
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In this, the sequel to Slow Boats to China (also reissued in Faber Finds), Gavin Young tells, with equal panache, of his return voyage from the China Seas to England, via the South Seas, Cape Horn and West Africa.'I am decidedly envious of Gavin Young and his Slow Boats Home, successor to his …
Worlds Apart
Travels in War and Peace
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
271 kr
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This volume collects the best of Gavin Young's journalism. These pieces, by turn elegant, vivid and compassionate, display his acute understanding of the varied worlds in which we live.'Young is a born raconteur. His writing is full of visual impressions and touches of sensibility. He is driven …
Return to the Marshes
Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
236 kr
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It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the …
Wavering Grace
A Vietnamese Family in War and Peace
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
259 kr
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As an Observer correspondent in Vietnam before the American withdrawal in 1975, Gavin Young met many courageous Vietnamese people. He frequently stayed with one such person, Madame Bong, a woman who had lost her husband when she was only twenty-five, had recovered the mangled limbs of one son from …
Beyond Lion Rock
The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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In 1946 Roy Farrell and Syd de Kantzow's beloved, battered wartime DC-3 touched down in Shanghai for the first time. On board was a cargo of morning coats and toothbrushes from New York, forging the first post-war supply route across the treacherous eastern Himalayas. The international airline now …
From Sea to Shining Sea
A Present Day Journey into America's Past
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
259 kr
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Gavin Young' s North American odyssey took him from Central Park and the old Atlantic whaling ports all the way to a tiny cabin in the Yukon, where Jack London heard 'the call of the wild'. Whether sleuthing through riot-racked Los Angeles in the footsteps of Philip Marlowe, crossing the Arizona …
In Search of Conrad
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
271 kr
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First published in 1991, Gavin Young's hugely acclaimed In Search of Conrad was joint winner of the 1992 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.'Part-mariner's log and part-detective story, [In Search of Conrad] brilliantly evokes the Far Eastern landscapes fixed forever in our imaginations by Conrad's …
Return to the Marshes
Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
Av Gavin Young
E-bok, 2011
185 kr
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It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the …
Beyond Lion Rock
The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways
Av Gavin Young
E-bok, 2012
185 kr
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In 1946 Roy Farrell and Syd de Kantzow's beloved, battered wartime DC-3 touched down in Shanghai for the first time. On board was a cargo of morning coats and toothbrushes from New York, forging the first post-war supply route across the treacherous eastern Himalayas. The international airline now …
Slow Boats Home
Av Gavin Young
E-bok, 2015
200 kr
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In this, the sequel to Slow Boats to China (also reissued in Faber Finds), Gavin Young tells, with equal panache, of his return voyage from the China Seas to England, via the South Seas, Cape Horn and West Africa.'I am decidedly envious of Gavin Young and his Slow Boats Home, successor to his …
Slow Boats to China
Av Gavin Young
E-bok, 2016
169 kr
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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 …
Observations On the Opinions of Several Writers On Various Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Questions
Av Gavin Young
Inbunden, 2023
429 kr
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Observations On the Opinions of Several Writers On Various Historical, Political, and Metaphysical Questions
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2023
314 kr
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Observations On The Opinions Of Several Writers On Various Historical, Political, And Metaphysical Questions (1817)
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2008
480 kr
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An Inquiry Into The Expediency Of Applying The Principles Of Colonial Policy To The Government Of India (1822)
Av Gavin Young
Häftad, 2009
614 kr
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