- Paperback: 396 pages
- Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (18 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1842322893
- ISBN-13: 978-1842322895
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.6 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 684,664 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tom Cutter runs an air charter service from Arabia to the Far East after the war. His best friend is the Russian-American Connie Shanklin. Connie works for Tom and inspires faith and hope in men of all denominations.
About the Author
Nevil Shute Norway worked as an aeronautical engineer at Vickers before setting up his own airship company. He served in both world wars and was a commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve in World War II, working on secret projects. He flew his own aircraft to Australia to research On the Beach, before settling there permanently. His books are based on his own wartime and aircraft industry experiences.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Why you should read this book...,
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This review is from: Round the Bend (Paperback)
Shute gives us yet another inspiring tale filled with hope for humanity. Told by a pilot in the post-war period it charts his experiences through the Middle and Far East and the people who touch his life. Shute's characters, as ever, are beautifully drawn and wholly believable and face life with a dignity missing from many authors' work. As we are shown glimpses of the nature of faith, redemption, and love against the unlikely background of aeroplane engineering we cannot fail to be moved.One of the strongest titles from the master-storyteller it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up with sheer emotion.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
His best,
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This review is from: Round the Bend (Paperback)
Having read several of Nevil Shutes books, and finding pleasure in many of them, this is the one that I keep coming back to. In my opinion, it's his best, with "A town like Alice" coming second.The story takes you through the mid-east and south Asia, bringing up subjects like work ethics, religion and tolerance between ethnic groups. Even though a lot has changed in the world as compared to when the book was written, it is still a book to read, and to ponder on.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nevil Shute at his best,
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This review is from: Round the Bend (Vintage Classics) (Kindle Edition)
Difficult to know whether to review the book, or the Kindle version! So it is 5 stars for the book but would be 3 stars for this version. £6.40 is, IMHO, too much for a book written by an author who has been dead for 50 years and it has text to speech disabled which, bearing in mind the likely age of readers, is just dumb. Let's hope the money is at least going to Mr Norway's family and not just greedy publishers!
As to the book it is the usual wonderfully well told Nevil Shute story, amusing particularly that it deals with what to Nevil Norway the aircraft engineer, designer and aviation company owner must have been the perfect religion! Full of what today would be very non PC terms and views it very much reflects the society (and Britain's place in it) of the time and ideas that, at that time, would have been very radical i.e. the very idea that asian engineers could be just as good as Brits and even the possibility that an Englishman might marry a girl of mixed race. Despite that it has messages that are every bit as relevent today - particularly that of different religions having common ground instead of cause for hatred. "I doubt anyone will be reading my books in 50 years" Nevil Shute once said. I'm very glad to prove him completely wrong on that one point!
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