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Shute, Nevil

 
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Synopsis

DJ is complete with little wear, other than a scuffing patch. There is a small amount of writing in red ink to front of DJ and some blue ink. Large gift inscription to endpaper. Contnets are clean and bright.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Nevil Shute Norway 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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INCLUDES THE NOVEL PILOTAGE

'Professional storytelling with splendid accounts of flying, driving and sailing adding thrust to the narrative' Observer

Stephen Morris has just called off his engagement to the girl of his dreams because he is a penniless graduate with no prospects. He finds a job working as an aircraft mechanic, hoping to make his fortune. In Pilotage, Stephen's young navigator Peter Dennison is struggling with exactly the same problem. These two early novels draw on Nevil Shute's own experiences as a young engineer.

See also: Requiem for a Wren

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