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Slide Rule

Slide Rule

by Nevil Shute
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/10/2009
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The autobiography of the classic author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the forefront of the technological experimentation of the 1920s and 30s. The inspiration for many of the themes and concerns of Shute's novels can be identified in this enjoyable and enlightening memoir.
ISBN:
9780099530176
9780099530176
Category:
Autobiography: literary
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-10-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
272
Dimensions (mm):
198x130x15mm
Weight:
0.19kg
Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute Norway was born in London in 1899. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in engineering in 1922 and began working as an aeronautical engineer.

The first of his 24 novels, Marazan, was published in 1926 and these two very separate careers flourished in tandem until he ceased work in 1938 to write full-time. As a Naval Volunteer Reservist in the Second World War, Shute developed anti-submarine missiles and was sent to Normandy to chronicle the D-Day landings.

In 1945 he emigrated to Australia with his wife and daughters and there wrote perhaps his most famous novels - A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957). He died in Melbourne in 1960.

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