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My Adventurous Life

My Adventurous Life Hardcover - 2021

by Dick Smith

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  • Hardcover

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Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. 'I have been charmed by good fortune to be born in Australia in the 1940s. I have lived through a time of great prosperity and every day I am reminded of my good luck.' Dick Smith is a remarkable and proud Australian. He has been part of our national consciousness for over fifty years as an innovative and astute businessman, a ground-breaking adventurer, a generous philanthropist and a provocateur for the causes he feels deeply about. Yet, despite his great successes and achievements, Dick has remained down to earth and close to his roots. So how did the young boy who was one of the most academically hopeless in class become the national living treasure he is today? And what was it within that kid with a speech impediment that allowed him to create three successful businesses, and take on some of the world's greatest and most dangerous aviation challenges? In My Adventurous Life, Dick shares his inspiring story and the lessons he's learned about staying true to yourself. He has welcomed the freedoms that wealth brings, but has found the simple life more fulfilling. His responsibility is to the world and the people we share it with. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 342 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 1760878898. ISBN/EAN: 9781760878894. Inventory No: 51909. . 9781760878894
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Details

  • Title My Adventurous Life
  • Author Dick Smith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Condition Used - Good Condition
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Allen & Unwin, Sydney
  • Date 2021
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 51909
  • ISBN 9781760878894 / 1760878898
  • Weight 1.85 lbs (0.84 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 6.3 x 2.1 in (22.10 x 16.00 x 5.33 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Australia, Businesspeople
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021392433
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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About the author

Dick Smith is the entrepreneurial businessman who founded Dick Smith Electronics, Australian Geographic and Dick Smith Foods. A Companion of the Order of Australia, an Australian of the Year and one of the National Trust's Living Treasures, he is an aviator who has flown five times around the world, including the first solo helicopter circumnavigation, and across Australia and the Tasman Sea by balloon.