Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways - Hardcover
This is an account of the growth of one of the world's international airlines. From the early days when two pilots started a supply route across the Himalayas in a battered war surplus DC3 to the present day when almost five million passengers a year are carried between 35 countries. The airline grew from the dream of a Texan war hero, Roy Farrell and an Australian air ace, Syd de Kantzow, who met while tiger-hunting in Bengal. The dream became reality when Farrell touched down in his beloved "Betsy" with a cargo of morning coats and toothbrushes from New York. In a post-war world hungry for commodities, their enterprise flourished and grew; soon "Syd's pirates" were flying routes throughout the Far East, facing every kind of danger and discomfort, from civil war to the first air hi-jacking in history.
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About the Author:
Gavin Young (1929-2001) was a journalist, writer, and briefly a member of MI6. As a journalist, he was most associated with the Observer, being in the words of Mark Frankland's obituary 'a star foreign correspondent'. When disenchantment with journalism set in he turned to the writing of books. The two most famous ones are Slow Boats to China and its sequel Slow Boats Home . He himself had a particular affection for two later books In Search of Conrad (winner of the Thomas Cook Book Award) and A Wavering Grace. These and Beyond Lion Rock , From Sea to Shining Sea , Return to the Marshes and Worlds Apart are all being reissued in Faber Finds.
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- PublisherHutchinson
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0091738377
- ISBN 13 9780091738372
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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