Dahl, Roald creator author. Blake, Quentin illustrator. text biography enk USA Puffin Books c2016 1986 monographic eng

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209 pages, [19 unnumbered] : illustrations ; 20 cm. The children's author recounts his adventures as a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, living in the jungle, and later flying a fighter plane in World War II. The voyage out -- Dar es salaam -- Simba -- The green mamba -- The beginning of the war -- Mdisho of the Mwanumwezi -- Flying training -- Survival -- First encounter with a bandit -- The ammunition ship -- The battle of athens-the twentieth of april -- The last day but one -- The Argos Fiasco -- Palestine and Syria -- Home. Children Roald Dahl ; illustrated by Quentin Blake. In dust jacket. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1986. Kim Roxan A. Aying Elementary Fiction English Dahl, Roald Authors, English 20th century Biography World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, British 9780141371412 [paperback] 87149794 DLC 870618 20250918111611.0 1483808 eng