Author: Gavin Young
Title: Slow Boats To China. A Hilarious Modern Adventure Story
Description: Penguin 1983 Paperback. Seven months and twenty-three agreeab ly ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton. His odyssey teemed with excitement, adventure and colour. Gavin Young's account memo rably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships an d history of the places he encountered in what is his most famous book. The sequel, Slow Boats Home, is also reissued in Faber Fin ds. 'An unusual and fascinating book.' Hammond Innes, Guardian 'S torms, fleas, pirates, bad food and bureaucrats . My Young suff ered what he did to entertain us.' Anthony Burgess, Observer. (ISBN: 9780141007861). Very Good.

Keywords: Travel, Non-Fiction9780141007861 9780141007861


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