Going Solo

by Roald Dahl

Description

Going Solo is Roald Dahl’s autobiographical account of his early adult life, picking up where his earlier memoir Boy: Tales of Childhood leaves off. It follows Dahl’s adventures as he travels to Africa to work for the Shell Oil Company and later serves as a fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force during World War II. The book is filled with vivid, often humorous, and sometimes harrowing stories about snakes, plane crashes, and wartime experiences.