So Disdained

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Description

When Peter Moran picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night on the South Downs, he embarks upon an adventure that will lead him into treasonous international plots, flying adventures and tests of both his bravery and his loyalty.

Additional information

Weight 0.171 kg
Dimensions 1.5 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

240

Publisher

Year Published

2009-9-3

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

009953018X

About The Author

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).

Any book by Nevil Shute is a delight

Other text

That shattering, unaffected, literary style of his is masterly

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