An Old Captivity
$23.07
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2009
Summary
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099530121 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099530120 |
| Author: | Nevil Shute |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 216g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 19mm |
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Exhibits his talents at their provocative best
Exhibits his talents at their provocative best * New York Times *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 *
About The Author
Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute 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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