Going Solo by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrations)

Going Solo by Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrations)A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones. As a young man, Roald Dahl's adventures took him from London to East Africa, until the Second World War began and he became a RAF pilot. You'll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with deadly green mambas and hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling. Going Solo is exciting, enthralling and just like

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