Gavin Young
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Gavin Young (24 April 1928 – 18 January 2001) was a British journalist, war correspondent and travel writer. He was born in 1928 in Wales and spent most of his youth there and in Cornwall. He was a graduate of Oxford University where he studied modern history. Young died in London in 2001.
[edit] Selected works
- Return to the Marshes. 1977 - travels with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq
- Iraq: Land of Two Rivers, 1980 - travels in Mesopotamia
- Slow Boats to China, 1981 - travel round the world by water transport
- Slow Boats Home, 1985 - travel round the world by water transport
- Worlds Apart, 1987 - a collection of journalistic articles
- Beyond Lion Rock, 1987 - the story of Cathay Pacific Airways
- Introduction to a new edition of Uttermost Part of the Earth by Lucas Bridges, 1987