- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 July 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140105182
- ISBN-13: 978-0140105186
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 3.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,149,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This volume collects the best of Gavin Young's journalism. These pieces, by turn elegant, vivid and compassionate, display his acute understanding of the varied worlds in which we live.
'Young is a born raconteur. His writing is full of visual impressions and touches of sensibility. He is driven more by people than by seats of power. But it is difficult to be a compassionate journalist without appearing soppy or sentimental. Young often achieves it. One finishes Worlds Apart exhilarated, moved, angered and enthralled: a tribute to its quality.' Jon Swain, Sunday Times
--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.About the Author
Gavin Young (1929-2001) was a journalist, writer, and briefly a member of MI6. As a journalist, he was most associated with the Observer, being in the words of Mark Frankland's obituary 'a star foreign correspondent'. When disenchantment with journalism set in he turned to the writing of books. The two most famous ones are Slow Boats to China and its sequel Slow Boats Home. He himself had a particular affection for two later books In Search of Conrad (winner of the Thomas Cook Book Award) and A Wavering Grace. These and Beyond Lion Rock, From Sea to Shining Sea, Return to the Marshes and Worlds Apart are all being reissued in Faber Finds.
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I first personally `discovered' this author in his book Slow Boats to China and thirstily read it, ordered the sequel Slow Boats Home and devoured it in days. Why, I wondered, is an author as gifted, talented, readable and resourceful as this not more famous? I had not realized that he actually was !
Now, on my fourth or fifth Gavin Young book I discover how he became so resourceful and able to craft his works so tightly readable. Worlds starts by mentioning his early efforts to remain in the Middle East, where he was living with the Marsh Arabs - the subject of his first book - and he describes his early mentorship by Wilfred Thesiger, an English Arabist as famous as Philby or Gertrude Bell, advising him on his studies of the Arabs. Then, struggling to avoid returning to England to be trapped into the banking realms of his family he casually encounters Ian Fleming, of British Espionage and the James Bond series, who, working for the Times of London encourages the aspiring author to consider journalism. Gavin Young then proposes himself as an arabist- journalist to David Astor of the prestigious and influential weekly newspaper The Observer. He is accepted as - initially - the Tunisian `stringer' goes on to become an award winning regular and senior reporter and has an amazing career as a journalist.
That is why the author is such a talented writer, able to engage a reader from even just an opening line of an introduction - and able to craft such a fascinating, and thrilling book as this.
Now, on my fourth or fifth Gavin Young book I discover how he became so resourceful and able to craft his works so tightly readable. Worlds starts by mentioning his early efforts to remain in the Middle East, where he was living with the Marsh Arabs - the subject of his first book - and he describes his early mentorship by Wilfred Thesiger, an English Arabist as famous as Philby or Gertrude Bell, advising him on his studies of the Arabs. Then, struggling to avoid returning to England to be trapped into the banking realms of his family he casually encounters Ian Fleming, of British Espionage and the James Bond series, who, working for the Times of London encourages the aspiring author to consider journalism. Gavin Young then proposes himself as an arabist- journalist to David Astor of the prestigious and influential weekly newspaper The Observer. He is accepted as - initially - the Tunisian `stringer' goes on to become an award winning regular and senior reporter and has an amazing career as a journalist.
That is why the author is such a talented writer, able to engage a reader from even just an opening line of an introduction - and able to craft such a fascinating, and thrilling book as this.
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