Sold out
More about the book
It needed twenty-three vessels and seven months to transport Gavin Young by slow boat from Piraeus to Canton - seven months crowded with adventure, excitement and colour. His account of a fantasy come true memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history of the places he encountered in a quite exceptional book.
Book purchase
Slow Boats to China, Gavin Young
- Language
- Released
- 1983
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Paperback)
We’ll email you as soon as we track it down.
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- Slow Boats to China
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gavin Young
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Released
- 1983
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 488
- ISBN10
- 0140062394
- ISBN13
- 9780140062397
- Series
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- It needed twenty-three vessels and seven months to transport Gavin Young by slow boat from Piraeus to Canton - seven months crowded with adventure, excitement and colour. His account of a fantasy come true memorably distils the people, places, smells, conversations, ships and history of the places he encountered in a quite exceptional book.