GOING SOLO

Brief Description:
As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.

Brief Description:
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.

Brief Description:
Roald Dahl recounts his adventures working in East Africa for the Shell Company, living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.

Marc Notes:
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.;Roald Dahl recounts his adventures working in East Africa for the Shell Company, living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.

Biographical Note:
Roald Dahl(1916-1990) was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. He spent his childhood in England and, at age eighteen, went to work for the Shell Oil Company in Africa. When World War II broke out, he joined the Royal Air Force and became a fighter pilot. At the age of twenty-six he moved to Washington, D.C., and it was there he began to write. His first short story, which recounted his adventures in the war, was bought byThe Saturday Evening Post, and so began a long and illustrious career.
After establishing himself as a writer for adults, Roald Dahl began writing children s stories in 1960 while living in England with his family. His first stories were written as entertainment for his own children, to whom many of his books are dedicated.
Roald Dahl is now considered one of the most beloved storytellers of our time. Although he passed away in 1990, his popularity continues to increase as his fantastic novels, includingJames and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, andCharlie and the Chocolate Factory, delight an ever-growing legion of fans.
Learn more about Roald Dahl on the official Roald Dahl Web site: www.roalddahl.com"

Publisher Marketing:
"Going Solo," the second part of Roald Dahl's compelling and colourful autobiography, creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any you will find in his fiction. A marvellous evocation of his wartime exploits, it tells of African safaris and deadly snakes; of fighter planes and incredible air battles with the enemy during World War Two.

Publisher Marketing:
From the bestselling authorCharlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFGcomes an autobiographical account of his exploits as a World War II pilot!
Superb stories, daring deeds, fantastic adventures!Learn all about Roald Dahl's encounters with the enemy, his worldwide travels, the life-threatening injuries he sustained in a plane accident, and the rest of his sometimes bizarre, often unnerving, and always colorful adventures. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Roald Dahl one of the world's best-loved writers, Going Solo brings you directly into the action and into the mind of this fascinating man."