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Publisher Description
Nevil Shute was 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 Shutes novels can be found in this enjoyable and enlightening memoir.
GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
October 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
300
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
2.3
MB
Customer Reviews
Douglas Brodie
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Slide Rule
I first read this book when I was a CUSO Volunteer in Barbados forty years ago. For an engineer it was a fascinating insight into how complex stress calculations were done before the advent of computers.
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