White Boat from England - Couverture souple

Millar, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907206299 ISBN 13 : 9781907206290

Editeur : Lodestar Books, 2015

Synopsis

The third of George Millar's masterful sailing and travel narratives to be republished many decades after their original appearance. On the face of it, this voyage from Lymington to the Riviera should not be noteworthy, but this is a world recovering from war, and the author a man 'incapable of writing a dull sentence'. As Peter Bruce states in his Introduction, "One soon becomes captivated, as one always is, by George's unusually acute powers of observation and his ability to ascertain and record exactly what was going on at every stop - George Millar's accounts of his adventures are always like a box of jewels each giving dazzling pleasure and glorious entertainment, and never better than in this deservedly revived book."

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

George Millar DSO MC was born in 1910. He read architecture at Cambridge, but became a journalist. During the Second World War he served initially with the Rifle Brigade, escaped from a German POW camp, and went on to work with the French Resistance, for which he was awarded the _Legion d'Honneur_ and the _Croix de Guerre_. After the war he farmed in Dorset and explored Europe with his wife Isabel, in a succession of classic yachts. George Millar died in 2005.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lodestar Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907206299
• ISBN 13: 9781907206290
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible