Ebook {Epub PDF} Round the Bend by Nevil Shute

ROUND THE BEND. by Nevil Shute ‧RELEASE DATE: Jan. 31, Another straw in the wind suggesting a new trend in novels of spiritual import. Leslie Greener's No Time To Look Back(Viking) —published last Spring — was a significant and moving novel in this genre. Now comes the new Nevil Shute, showing advance in power over a rather fumbling handling of the spiritual impinging on the . Neville Shute's novel is about two men who met as impoverished teenagers and subsequently worked together in the Middle East in the 'www.doorway.ru protagonist is building up a commercial airline and the other is his skilled www.doorway.ru mechanic begins to teach his fellow workers that to be a good mechanic one must also be a good www.doorway.ru is so persuasive that he becomes a cult figure/5().  · Round the Bend, was set in the early post-war period, and relates the journey, geographical and spiritual, of a de-mobbed engineer, who establishes an air transport charter company in the far east. He starts off with a Fox Moth, but soon acquires a Basing Airtruck, 'high wing, two gipsy majors, and a great big cabin for a ton of freight'.

Round the Bend By John Anderson Perhaps my favourite of all Shute's novels, "Round the Bend" contains many of his usual elements - aviation, enterprise, a mild love interest, and an unusual story very well told. Nevil Shute Norway was born in in Ealing, London. He studied Engineering Science at Balliol College, Oxford. Following his childhood passion, he entered the fledgling aircraft industry as an aeronautical engineer working to develop airships and, later, airplanes. Buy Round the Bend by Shute, Nevil (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Round the Bend: Author: Nevil Shute: Edition: reprint: Publisher: Amereon Limited, Original from: the University of California: Digitized: : ISBN: , ROUND THE BEND. Remarks. Published: Heinemann. Setting: Post War / - Story: Starting with one small DH Fox Moth, Tom Cutter an aviation workaholic sets up his own air taxi/freight service in the Middle East. He employs local native mechanics and pilots as his business expands. The narrator of Round The Bend is Alan Cutter, an aircraft engineer, pilot and entrepreneur who starts an air freight business in Bahrain. The story is the account of his friendship with Connie Shaklin, an engineer who founds a new religion. This is the second novel of Shute's that I've read. The first was the most famous; On The Beach.