Björn recenserade Biggles flies south av W. E. Johns
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Petrol-drinking tuaregs, hidden oases in the Nubian desert, Persian armies whose descendants ("They're white men!") still hang on to that one oasis 2,500 years after losing contact with the outside world... You'd be hard pressed to call this the most realistic of the Biggles books. On the upside, there's not nearly as much racism as you might expect (which is to say there's a certain amount, more than 12-year-old me would have picked up on), and damnit, Johns' habit of breaking tension to lecture on how flying works is still unmatched for its sheer seriousness. I haven't read Biggles since before I discovered Monty Python, and only now do I realise just how little they had to exaggerate. Ridiculous, but with a stiff upper lip you can't help but admire.
Petrol-drinking tuaregs, hidden oases in the Nubian desert, Persian armies whose descendants ("They're white men!") still hang on to that one oasis 2,500 years after losing contact with the outside world... You'd be hard pressed to call this the most realistic of the Biggles books. On the upside, there's not nearly as much racism as you might expect (which is to say there's a certain amount, more than 12-year-old me would have picked up on), and damnit, Johns' habit of breaking tension to lecture on how flying works is still unmatched for its sheer seriousness. I haven't read Biggles since before I discovered Monty Python, and only now do I realise just how little they had to exaggerate. Ridiculous, but with a stiff upper lip you can't help but admire.