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This autobiography charts shute s path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer. Nevil shute norway 17 january 1899 12 january 1960 was an english novelist and. Slide rule vintage international series by nevil shute. Slide rule by nevil shute philip greenspuns weblog. The author was born nevil shute norway, second son of a british postal official. This might better be defined as a chapter in autobiography, for here is the nevil shute norway occasionally glimpsed in some of his novels, as aeronautical engineer, and virtually only that. Ensn020, slide rule, 1954, 107, 544k, ebook, download pdf slide rule. The author of 24 published novels and novellas, his bestknown books include pied piper, a town like alice, and especially on the beach, set in a fictional postatomicwar australia. Nevil shute norway 17 january 1899 12 january 1960 was an english novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in australia. Shutes own biography slide rule is no help since he chose to finish it in 1938 when he left airspeed. Are, in the order they were written, the far country, in the wet and slide rule. Nevils full name was nevil shute norway and he was to become famous as a novelist.
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In 1954 he published slide rule which gave an account of his life to 1938. Nevil shute has 57 books on goodreads with 196078 ratings. One fascinating thing about slide rule is the parallels and examples that one can draw to the fiction mr. Slide rule nevil shute page 7 read online free books.
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