Beyond the Black Stump

Name: Beyond the Black Stump
Price: 8.99 EUR
Author: Nevil Shute
ISBN: 9781409086949

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Nevil Shute

Vintage Digital
Paru le : 27/04/2010

If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil... > Lire la suite

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If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute's novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people's home lives. Stanton Laird is sent from his small town in America to work in a remote outpost in Western Australia. While out there he befriends the unconventional Regan family and falls in love with the daughter Mollie.
However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise.

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Date de parution : 27/04/2010
Editeur : Vintage Digital
ISBN : 978-1-4090-8694-9
EAN : 9781409086949
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Nevil Shute

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).