Background
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.
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Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey
(A former war reporter and foreign correspondent embarks o...)
A former war reporter and foreign correspondent embarks on an expeditions using old-fashioned travel methods.
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In Search of Conrad
(Gavin Young continues his life-long fascination with trav...)
Gavin Young continues his life-long fascination with travel and his love of the sea in this magical evocation of the world of Joseph Conrad. Conrad's career as a sailor provided the material for much of his writing, his voyages as first mate or master of various trading vessels in the 1870s and 1880s immortalized in such classics as "Lord Jim" and "Almayer's Folly". This book retraces his steps, chasing the shadows of Conrad by sea, land and river, visiting ports and islands, from Singapore to the Straits of Makassar. He takes in local legends, stories and songs heard on the way.
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In Search of Conrad by Gavin Young (1992-10-29)
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Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey by Gavin Young (1983-10-03)
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In Search of Conrad
(First published in 1991, Gavin Young's hugely acclaimed I...)
First published in 1991, Gavin Young's hugely acclaimed In Search of Conrad was joint winner of the 1992 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. 'Part-mariner's log and part-detective story, In Search of Conrad brilliantly evokes the Far Eastern landscapes fixed forever in our imaginations by Conrad's novels. But above all Young makes us realize that the world Conrad described nearly a century ago is still there ... the most pleasurable and exciting book I have read this year.' J. G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph 'Young's passion for Conrad and his stories blazes from every porthole.' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Young has an eye for atmosphere; he is marvellous on Singapore as her past impinges on the present, myriad streets stalked by ghosts from the nineteenth century ... In Search of Conrad is both scholarly and enthralling - always vivid, and often a hoot to read ... better still it may set you to reading Conrad again.' Independent 'Gavin Young has managed to write something rare in recent literature - a happy book about the Third World which also has the ring of truth.' Jonathan Raban, Independent on Sunday
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Gavin Young
Edit ProfileEducation
He graduated from Oxford University, where he studied modern history.
Career
Young spent most of his youth in Cornwall and South Wales. 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 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.
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In Search of Conrad
(Gavin Young continues his life-long fascination with trav...)
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In Search of Conrad
(First published in 1991, Gavin Young's hugely acclaimed I...)
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Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey
(A former war reporter and foreign correspondent embarks o...)
- Halfway around the world : an improbable journey / Gavin Young
- In Search of Conrad by Gavin Young (1992-10-29)
- Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey by Gavin Young (1983-10-03)
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In Search of Conrad
