Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/09/2009
ISBN: 9780099529989
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sister's boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2,000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters. His adventures and the colourful characters he meets on his journey make this book a marvellous tale of courage and friendship.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 03/09/2009
ISBN: 9780099529989
Length: 304 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm
Weight: 213g
RRP: £9.99
Something about this author's calm, deliberate style creates unexpected excitement... we are warmed by the justice and sheer pleasure of it
Nevil Shute made me yearn for a faithful, plodding, Shute-type of man. I imagined us trekking across the Australian outback, finding a run-down hamlet, and then transforming it together until death or flood parted us