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Title: Slow Boats Home by Gavin Young ISBN: 0-394-52142-0 Publisher: Bookthrift Co Pub. Date: 01 April, 1986 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The slow pace of the mind
Comment: Gavin Young is a remarkable writer who has the ability to place you inside his field of perception as he describes his travels. Even so, his highly personal style is never intrusive and reminds one of George Orwell's essays. Slow Boats Home takes us once again into that almost vanished world of tramp steamers, island-hopping in small boats and a multitude of brief glimpses at other people's lives seen by this quintessential observer of life. Young's obvious sympathy for those he encounters, sometimes during dark phases of their life, makes it clear that he has a firm belief in the fundamental humanity of people everywhere. Nonetheless, he has no patience for the crude, the imperialist and often frankly racist attitudes he often encounters. Young is offering a silent plea to slow down the pace of modern development in favor of respect for indigenous cultures and languages. We can only hope that this plea, so eloquently phrased in this wonderful book, is heeded before it is too late to preserve local cultural variety.
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Title: Slow boats to China by Gavin Young ISBN: 0140062394 Publisher: Penguin, 1983 |
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Title: Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey by Gavin Young ISBN: 0394521145 Publisher: Book Sales Pub. Date: 01 October, 1983 List Price(USD): $1.98 |
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