Slide Rule

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ISBN 10: 0749304103 / ISBN 13: 9780749304102

Edité par -, 1990

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Synopsis :

Nevil Shute was a pioneer in the world of flying long before he became a novelist. This autobiography tells of his life as an engineer and of the extraordinary competition that developed between government and private enterprise in the construction of the airship R100 and the ill-fated R101.

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).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Slide Rule
Éditeur : -
Date d'édition : 1990
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good