Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute (English) Paperback Book

Description: Trustee from the Toolroom by Nevil Shute Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sisters boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2,000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters. His adventures and the colourful characters he meets on his journey make this book a marvellous tale of courage and friendship.Something about this authors calm, deliberate style creates unexpected excitement... we are warmed by the justice and sheer pleasure of it Independent Notes A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Back Cover Something about this authors calm, deliberate style creates unexpected excitement... we are warmed by the justice and sheer pleasure of it Independent Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However, one day he is called upon to undertake an extraordinary task. When his sisters boat is wrecked in the Pacific, he becomes trustee for his little niece. In order to save her from destitution he has to embark on a 2,000 mile voyage in a small yacht in inhospitable waters. His adventures and the colourful characters he meets on his journey make this book a marvellous tale of courage and friendship. See Also: Most Secret Author Biography 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). Review Something about this authors calm, deliberate style creates unexpected excitement... we are warmed by the justice and sheer pleasure of it * Independent *Nevil Shute made me yearn for a faithful, plodding, Shute-type of man. I imagined us trekking across the Australian outback, finding a run-down hamlet, and then transforming it together until death or flood parted us * The Times * Promotional A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Long Description In 1622, Rubens designed his second tapestry series, The Story of Constantine, for which he executed twelve oil sketches, all of which are currently preserved in public and private collections in America and Europe. Tapestries produced after the lost cartoons, which were in turn painted after the oil sketches, were woven in the tapestry factories in the faubourgs of Saint Marcel and Saint Germain in Paris. Based on new archival research and a critical examination of the literature on the Constantine series, this book firmly embeds the genesis, and iconographical and stylistic features of the set in its specific artistic, manufactural, and commercial matrix, and thus develops the first truly inclusive approach to Rubenss Story of Constantine. Analysis of the entrepreneurial strategy of Marc Comans and Francois de la Planche, directors of the factory in the faubourg of Saint Marcel, the correspondence between Rubens and Peiresc, the provenance of the twelve oil sketches, and the iconographical programme reveals that the series was not commissioned by the French king Louis XIII, as has long been believed, but by Comans and de la Planche. A close reading of Rubenss primary literary source, Caesar Baroniuss Annales Ecclesiastici, shows that the artist must have intended the twelve scenes to hang in a sequence different from the generally accepted one, though seventeenth-century buyers and viewers could have seen and interpreted the Constantine series quite differently, as their view was distorted by the jumble of Constantinian legends and motifs that had lodged in the cultural memory of Latin Christianity. Finally, the book explores the area of tension between the sets austere monumentality and highly sophisticated aesthetic, which was rooted in Rubenss profound knowledge of classical and Renaissance art and in his earlier forays into the free and creative application of these sources, contemporary French and Brussels tapestry sets, and the pictorial and decorative qualities, possibilities and challenges inherent in the medium itself. Review Text Something about this authors calm, deliberate style creates unexpected excitement... we are warmed by the justice and sheer pleasure of it Promotional "Headline" A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach . Details ISBN009952998X Author Nevil Shute Year 2009 ISBN-10 009952998X ISBN-13 9780099529989 Format Paperback Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Birth 1899 Death 1960 DEWEY 823.912 Media Book Tag vintageclassics Language English Pages 304 UK Release Date 2009-09-03 AU Release Date 2009-09-03 NZ Release Date 2009-09-03 Narrator Llewella Gideon Translator Robert Dobbin Affiliation Professor of Criminology, University of Manchester Position Professor of Criminology Qualifications QC Publisher Vintage Publishing Publication Date 2009-09-03 Imprint Vintage Classics Alternative 9781409087519 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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