A riproaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson father of London mayor Boris Johnson. Stanleys story begins with a loud bang when his father, an RAF pilot in the Second World War, crashlands a Wellington bomber in a Devon airfield. A few years later, Stanleys parents buy a sheep farm on nearby Exmoor, where Stanley does much of his growing up. Stanley would keep his links with this muchloved rural idyll throughout his life while going on to become an explorer, author, occasional politician and also one of the worlds 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 twentythree and while Boris would go on to become big news, the familys forbears also provide quite a story, as Stanley finds out. For the Johnson familys 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...

Binding: Paperback;338 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 420.73 g; Dimensions: N/A

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