A Voyage Through Indonesia

Arts & Photography

Gavin Young

Edward Samuel Behr

Photography & Video

Millet Weldon Owen

<p>Seven months and twenty-three agreeably ill-assorted vessels are what were required to transport Gavin Young, by slow boat, from Piraeus to Canton. His odyssey teemed with excitement, adventure and colour. Gavin Young's account memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history of the places he encountered in what is his most famous book. The sequel, Slow Boats Home, is also reissued in Faber Finds. 'An unusual and fascinating book.' Hammond Innes, Guardian 'Storms, fleas, pirates, bad food and bureaucrats ... My Young suffered what he did to entertain us.' Anthony Burgess, Observer</p>

Slow boats to China

Travel

Penguin??Books

Return to the Marshes: Life With the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

Asia

Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways

Biographies & Memoirs

<p>Gavin Young continues his life-long fascination with travel and his love of the sea in this magical evocation of the world of Joseph Conrad. Conrad's career as a sailor provided the material for much of his writing, his voyages as first mate or master of various trading vessels in the 1870s and 1880s immortalized in such classics as "Lord Jim" and "Almayer's Folly". This book retraces his steps, chasing the shadows of Conrad by sea, land and river, visiting ports and islands, from Singapore to the Straits of Makassar. He takes in local legends, stories and songs heard on the way.</p>

In Search of Conrad

Literature & Fiction

By tramp steamer, ferry, oil tanker, schooner, and Arab dhow, Young makes his way from Piraeus to Canton in this modern-day seafaring adventure

Slow Boats to China

Picador

It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. "Return to the Marshes", first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. "A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction." (Jonathan Raban, "Sunday Times").

Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq

Faber&Faber

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