Trustee From The Toolroom
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the heart of Trustee from the Toolroom lies an extraordinary ordinary man — Keith Stewart, a modest London hobbyist who writes a small column for a model-engineering magazine and asks nothing more of life than his workbench and his quiet routines. When his sister and brother-in-law perish at sea, leaving behind a young daughter and a fortune in hidden jewels aboard their sunken yacht off a remote Pacific island, Keith is thrust into a globe-spanning odyssey he never sought, armed only with his reputation as a master craftsman and the goodwill of strangers who know his name from the pages of his beloved newsletter. Nevil Shute, one of the great storytellers of mid-twentieth-century English fiction, presents in this 1960 novel a quietly radical argument: that decency, skill, and integrity are currencies more powerful than wealth or status. The narrative unfolds with Shute's characteristic warmth and precision, weaving together themes of duty, community, and the unassuming heroism of the working man. It stands as one of his most beloved works — a testament to the idea that the most remarkable journeys are undertaken not by the ambitious, but by the faithful. Will Keith's world of tiny gears and miniature engines be enough to carry him across the Pacific and back?
Author: Nevil Shute
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the heart of Trustee from the Toolroom lies an extraordinary ordinary man — Keith Stewart, a modest London hobbyist who writes a small column for a model-engineering magazine and asks nothing more of life than his workbench and his quiet routines. When his sister and brother-in-law perish at sea, leaving behind a young daughter and a fortune in hidden jewels aboard their sunken yacht off a remote Pacific island, Keith is thrust into a globe-spanning odyssey he never sought, armed only with his reputation as a master craftsman and the goodwill of strangers who know his name from the pages of his beloved newsletter. Nevil Shute, one of the great storytellers of mid-twentieth-century English fiction, presents in this 1960 novel a quietly radical argument: that decency, skill, and integrity are currencies more powerful than wealth or status. The narrative unfolds with Shute's characteristic warmth and precision, weaving together themes of duty, community, and the unassuming heroism of the working man. It stands as one of his most beloved works — a testament to the idea that the most remarkable journeys are undertaken not by the ambitious, but by the faithful. Will Keith's world of tiny gears and miniature engines be enough to carry him across the Pacific and back?