Résumé
A rip-roaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson - father of London mayor Boris Johnson. Stanley's story begins with a loud bang - when his father, an RAF pilot in the Second World War, crash-lands a Wellington bomber on a Devon airfield. A few years later Stanley's parents buy a sheep farm on nearby Exmoor, where Stanley does much of his growing up. Stanley would keep his links with this much-loved rural idyll throughout his life - while going on to become an explorer, author, occasional politician and also one of the world's first environmentalists. A sparkling raconteur and experienced thriller writer, in Stanley I Presume great stories are told in great style. On leaving school in 1958 Stanley travelled alone through South America - hitching rides across the jungle on Brazilian Air Force planes - and shortly afterwards he rode a motorcycle 4,000 miles from London to Afghanistan, tracing the route of Marco Polo with two friends. After winning Oxford University's poetry prize with a love poem - written following a hilltop tryst in the West Country - Stanley went on to do various adventurous jobs, before working for the billionaire John D Rockefeller III, the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union. Stanley married and started a family young - Boris was born in New York when his father was 23 - and while Boris would go on to become big news, the family's forbears also provide quite a story, as Stanley finds out. For the Johnson family's roots are not just in the West Country, but in Turkey too - where, as Stanley discovers, his politician grandfather Ali Kemal was torn to pieces by an angry mob. Stanley visits a Turkish village where the locals are blonde - later he learns that he and Boris are direct descendants of George II.
À propos de l'auteur
Johnson, Stanley
Stanley Johnson is a veteran author, environmentalist and politician – and father of Boris Johnson, the London mayor.Stanley’s career has seen him write successful thrillers, confront seal-clubbers on ice floes and be hailed by Greenpeace.He has also worked for the World Bank, the United Nations, the European Commission and John D Rockefeller.While his work has taken him all over the world, Stanley has always kept his strong links with Exmoor, where he still manages the family farm.
Fiche technique
- Titre : Stanley I Presume
- Auteur : Johnson, Stanley
- Langue : Anglais
- Format : Relié
- Nombre de pages : 304
- Genre : Autobiography: general
- Date de publication : 19-03-2009
- Édition : Fourth Estate Ltd
- Poids : 0.66 kg
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.048 x 24.13 cm
- ISBN-10 : 000729672X
- ISBN-13 : 9780007296729
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