Stanley I Presume?
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2009
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-729672-9 (ISBN)
Fourth Estate Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-00-729672-9 (ISBN)
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A rip-roaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson - father of London mayor Boris Johnson. Stanley's story begins with a loud bang - when his father, an RAF pilot in the Second World War, crash-lands a Wellington bomber on a Devon airfield. A few years later Stanley's parents buy a sheep farm on nearby Exmoor, where Stanley does much of his growing up. Stanley would keep his links with this much-loved rural idyll throughout his life - while going on to become an explorer, author, occasional politician and also one of the world's first environmentalists. A sparkling raconteur and experienced thriller writer, in Stanley I Presume great stories are told in great style. On leaving school in 1958 Stanley travelled alone through South America - hitching rides across the jungle on Brazilian Air Force planes - and shortly afterwards he rode a motorcycle 4,000 miles from London to Afghanistan, tracing the route of Marco Polo with two friends.
After winning Oxford University's poetry prize with a love poem - written following a hilltop tryst in the West Country - Stanley went on to do various adventurous jobs, before working for the billionaire John D Rockefeller III, the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union. Stanley married and started a family young - Boris was born in New York when his father was 23 - and while Boris would go on to become big news, the family's forbears also provide quite a story, as Stanley finds out. For the Johnson family's roots are not just in the West Country, but in Turkey too - where, as Stanley discovers, his politician grandfather Ali Kemal was torn to pieces by an angry mob. Stanley visits a Turkish village where the locals are blonde - later he learns that he and Boris are direct descendants of George II.
After winning Oxford University's poetry prize with a love poem - written following a hilltop tryst in the West Country - Stanley went on to do various adventurous jobs, before working for the billionaire John D Rockefeller III, the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union. Stanley married and started a family young - Boris was born in New York when his father was 23 - and while Boris would go on to become big news, the family's forbears also provide quite a story, as Stanley finds out. For the Johnson family's roots are not just in the West Country, but in Turkey too - where, as Stanley discovers, his politician grandfather Ali Kemal was torn to pieces by an angry mob. Stanley visits a Turkish village where the locals are blonde - later he learns that he and Boris are direct descendants of George II.
Stanley Johnson is an author, environmentalist and politician - and father of Boris Johnson, the London mayor. Stanley's career has seen write successful thrillers, confront seal-clubbers on ice-floes, and be hailed for his work by Greenpeace. Stanley has always kept his strong links with Exmoor, where he still manages the family farm.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.3.2009 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 col plates (8pp) |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 159 x 240 mm |
Gewicht | 655 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
ISBN-10 | 0-00-729672-X / 000729672X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-729672-9 / 9780007296729 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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