No Highway
de Shute, Nevil
- Usado
- Muy bueno
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Modesto, California, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
New York: Award Fiction. Very Good. 1977. Reprint. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and wear, as do the front and rear foredges. The text pages are clean and bright. "No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute. It formed the basis of the 1951 film No Highway in the Sky. An eccentric scientist has been claiming that certain parts of a plane will develop metal fatigue sooner than officially estimated, but nobody takes him seriously. While flying to the site of an air crash that killed a Soviet ambassador, he discovers that his own plane has already flown twice its permitted number of hours and he uses his technical knowledge to sabotage it as soon as it lands, putting his credibility further in doubt. " (from Wikipedia) .
Sinopsis
NEVIL SHUTE NORWAY was born on January 17, 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 January 12, 1960. His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942), No Highway (1948), A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957).
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Detalles
- Librería
- S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- A41004
- Título
- No Highway
- Autor
- Shute, Nevil
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- Reprint
- Editorial
- Award Fiction
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1977
- Palabras clave
- Modern Fiction, Nevil Shute, Aviation, Accidents, Disasters
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Fiction;
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Sobre el vendedor
S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
Miembro de Biblio desde 2003
Modesto, California
Sobre S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)
S. Howlett-West Books was established in 1996, but the owner, Stephanie has been in the book business for over 30 years. Besides her full time work as a book dealer, she writes articles on the subject of Science Fiction for several trade magazines. She is a collector and reader of first edition science fiction in her spare time.
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Mass Market
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- Jacket
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