||boek: Per boot naar huis|Slow boats home|vertaling: Parma van Loon|Hollandia Reisverhalen

||door: Gavin Young

||taal: nl
||jaar: 1991
||druk: ?
||pag.: 494p
||opm.: paperback|zo goed als nieuw

||isbn: 90-6410-072-1
||code: 1:000783

--- Over het boek (foto 1): Per boot naar huis ---

"Per boot naar huis is Gavin Young's vervolg op Per boot naar China. Volgde hij in Per boot naar China - weliswaar met een allegaartje van 23 schepen - nog min of meer de kortste weg naar zijn doel, in Per boot naar huis is daar geen sprake van. Vanuit China vaart hij via Nieuw Guinea en de Polinesische eilanden naar Peru in Zuid-Amerika. Hij vliegt naar Chili om vervolgens scheep te gaan voor een tocht rond Kaap Hoorn. Via Rio de Janeiro vliegt hij vervolgens naar Kaapstad in Zuid-Afrika waarvandaan hij met de nodige onderbrekingen naar Engeland vaart. Op zijn eigen humoristische wijze tekent hij zijn belevenissen en zijn contacten met mensen van allerlei pluimage op."

[bron: https--www.reis-boek.nl/product/per-boot-naar-huis-slow-boats-home]

In this, the sequel to "Slow Boats to China", Gavin Young tells, with equal panache, of his return voyage from the China Seas to England, via the South Seas, Cape Horn and West Africa. 'I am decidedly envious of Gavin Young and his "Slow Boats Home", successor to his highly entertaining "Slow Boats to China" ... a fascinating, memorable book' - Eric Newby, the "Guardian". 'Like "Slow Boats to China", this is likely to become a classic of travel' - Francis King, the "Spectator".

[source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2019-12-08]

The continuation of Gavin Young's travels after "Slow boats to China". Gavin travels eastward from Hong Kong by ship, stopping at Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti, Cape Horn, Saint Helena and Ascension Island on his return home to England. In the vein of his "In search of Conrad", Young makes passing references to authors, visiting the grave of Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa and landing on Selkirk Island, the inspiration for Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". Such good, easy to read travel writing.

Nick [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

[2010-08-01]

Not a literal sequel as I had imagined from the title - he actually flew home, wrote the first book and then flew back to China in order to get another set of boats home again. This time, he obviously goes the other direction, through the South Seas and past South America. His big aim was to sail past Cape Horn at the tip of South America but unbelievably manages to time his arrival just as the Falklands war breaks out and the area is blocked to ships. He does make it there though. I think I liked this book much better - there were loads of little islands all with their own histories and people and there's also a shipwreck, though it's not very perilous or exciting. Anyway, I really recommend both of these - they're both cheap as chips on Amazon too.

Marceline Smith [source: https--www.goodreads.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Gavin Young ---

Gavin David Young (24 April 1928 - 18 January 2001) was a journalist and travel writer.

He was born in Bude, Cornwall, England. His father, Gavin Young, was a lieutenant colonel in the Welsh Guards. Daphne, his mother, was the daughter of Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, Bt, of Monmouthshire. Young spent most of his youth in Cornwall and South Wales. He graduated from Oxford University, where he studied modern history.

Young spent two years with the Ralli Brothers shipping company in Basra in Iraq before living with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He fashioned his experiences into a book, Return to the Marshes (1977). In 1960, from Tunis, he joined The Observer of London as a foreign correspondent, and was the Observer's correspondent in Paris and New York. He had covered fifteen wars and revolutions throughout the world, and worked for The Guardian and was a travel writer. Young died in London on 18 January 2001; he was 72 years old.

Selected works

• Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, 1977 - travels with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq (photographs by Nik Wheeler)
• Iraq: Land of Two Rivers, 1980 - travels in Mesopotamia
• Slow Boats to China, 1981 - travel round the world by water transport
• Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey, 1983
• Slow Boats Home, 1985 - travel round the world by water transport
• Worlds Apart, 1987 - a collection of journalistic articles
• Beyond Lion Rock, 1987 - the story of Cathay Pacific Airways
• "Introduction" to a new edition of Uttermost Part of the Earth by Lucas Bridges, 1987
• In Search of Conrad, 1991 (Thomas Cook Travel Book Award)
• From Sea to Shining Sea: Present-day Journey into America's Past, 1996
• A Wavering Grace: A Vietnamese Family in War and Peace, 1997 - a Vietnamese family in war and peace
• Eye on the World, 1999

[source: wikipedia]

Name: Gavin Young
Role: Journalist
Education: University of Oxford
Died: January 18, 2001, London, United Kingdom
Books: Slow Boats to China, Return to the marshes, Slow boats home, In search of Conrad, Beyond Lion Rock

[source: https--alchetron.com/Gavin-Young]