Stanley i Presume? [Audiobook] download free by Stanley Johnson
- Listen audiobook: Stanley i Presume?
- Author: Stanley Johnson
- Release date: 2010/4/22
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780007296736
- Rating: 8.27 of 10
- Votes: 585
- Review by: Olivia Mackenzie
- Review rating: 9.22 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/23
- Duration: 3H46M39S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-31
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, MP3, FLAC, WMA, WAV, Musepack, AIFF (compression BZ2, ARJ, DEB, TBZ, RAR, ZIP, BZ)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 18M30S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 in 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. On leaving school in 1958, Stanley travelled alone through South America - hitching rides across the jungle on Brazilian Air Force planes - and shortly afterwards rode a motorcycle 4,000 miles from London to Afghanistan, tracing the route of Marco Polo with two friends. 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 twenty-three - 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. A sparkling raconteur and experienced thriller writer, in 'Stanley, I Presume?', Stanley Johnson tells great stories in an unsurpassable style.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: Historical, Political & Military, Memoirs, Travel Writing, Autobiography: General
- Download servers: Torrent, Mediafire, Dropbox, 4Shared, FileInvite. Compressed in BZ2, ARJ, DEB, TBZ, RAR, ZIP, BZ
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.35 USD
- Dimensions: 129.54x193.04x25.4mm
- Weight: 249.47g
- Printed by: FOURTH ESTATE LTD
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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