Gavin Young (1928–2001)
Autor de Slow Boats to China
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Wilfred Thesinger (on Right) with Gavin Young
Obras de Gavin Young
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Young, Gavin
- Nombre legal
- Young, Gavin David
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1928-04-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2001-01-18
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Bude, Cornwall, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Bude, Cornwall, England, UK
South Wales
Basra, Iraq - Educación
- Oxford University (Trinity College)
Rugby School - Ocupaciones
- journalist
travel writer
MI6 Agent - Relaciones
- Thesiger, Wilfred (travel companion)
- Premios y honores
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 16
- También por
- 2
- Miembros
- 862
- Popularidad
- #29,694
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 15
- ISBNs
- 56
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 3
He was an adventurer for a lifetime and sought out the places where civil government and politics was disintegrating. He includes a piece about my own country (New Zealand) and the detrimental impact it has had on many of the Samoan population that emigrate there to provide for their families.
The section that covers the Vietnam War is a highlight of Young's collection. He was present at Hue before, during and after the Battle of Hue in March 1968. The horrible experiences that permanently wrecked the lives of the inhabitants at the hands of the communists is told with sober elegance.
All Gavin Young's books cannot be put down, I have found. This collection from a life fully lived, is another one… (más)