Man Overboard
Binding, Tim
Sold by BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 20 October 2014
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSold by BookAddiction (IOBA, IBooknet), Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since 20 October 2014
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst edition, first printing. 244pp. Dark blue cloth-covered boards, gilt-stamped lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers. Cloth very slightly pushed at spine tips. Hint of browning to text block edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust wrapper a little bumped on extreme edges.
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Tim Binding is perhaps our finest chronicler of British 20th century history through the medium of fiction. With Man Overboard he has written the extraordinary and unlikely story of a real-life English war hero. Lionel 'Buster' Crabb became renowned during the Second World War for his amazing feats of underwater daring. After the war he was celebrated for embodying a particular English ideal – a love for King and Country – that seemed to be dying out. Then, in 1956, during a visit to Britain by Nikita Khrushchev, who had arrived by ship, Commander Crabb disappeared. Some thought he had perished while attempting to inspect the Soviet vessel; others that he had been kidnapped and forced to work for the USSR.
The truth remains unknown to this day, and out of this mystery Tim Binding has spun a wondrous piece of fiction – a deeply imaginative, gently funny and profoundly stirring exploration of the idea of Englishness. It is the story of a man who has made deep personal sacrifices for the sake of higher ideals and who must, towards the end of his days, measure their meaning and their worth.
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