Most Secret
by Nevil Shute
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20120093
- Title
- Most Secret
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- Format/Binding
- Imitation red Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heron Books
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- No date
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Most Secret
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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