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Slow Boats to China

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Slow Boats to China

Contributors:

By (Author) Gavin Young

ISBN:

9780571251032

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

16th April 2009

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:
Dewey:

910.45

Physical Properties

Number of Pages:

504

Dimensions:

Width 216mm, Height 135mm, Spine 36mm

Weight:

613g

Description

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

Author Bio

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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