An Old Captivity - Couverture souple

Shute, Nevil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749304154 ISBN 13 : 9780749304157

Editeur : Mandarin, 1991

Synopsis

Donald Ross has little in common with the elderly Oxford don who has commissioned him to fly to Greenland on an expedition - still less with his stubborn daughter who insists on coming with them. But Ross is transported back 1000 years to another age and their destinies become inextricably bound.

A propos du livre

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).

Quatrième de couverture

'Nevil Shute's books always have a real hero...intensely romantic along with the realism, intensely real along with the romanticism, and peculiarly absorbing' Sunday Times

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there.

See also: Landfall

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mandarin
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749304154
• ISBN 13: 9780749304157
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible