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Being a fairly known popular actor, the young public will easily read his facial expressions, what could ease the story greatly. Of course if anyone can dig up the Chris Foss artwork that was used for the interior illustrations of some early editions I'd be eternally grateful. On 14 December 2014, actor Nigel Anthony performed an original adaptation by Amber Barnfather of The Shepherd, with music and sound effects, at St Clement Danes, the Central Church of the Royal Air Force, in London. I was first introduced to this story by Fireside Al from the CBC (although I'm not Canadian my upstate NY radio station carried 'As It Happens' which I loved! He hung up the telephone and thought someone must have bought one of the old Mosquitoes, happened to be flying on Christmas Eve, saw a pilot flying in small triangles, and led him to the storage depot, which had the closest airstrip.
The Shepherd - Frederick Forsyth - read by Alan Maitland from CBC Radio The Shepherd - Frederick Forsyth - read by Alan Maitland from CBC
Forsyth created this original work as a Christmas gift to his first wife Carrie after she requested a ghost story be written for her. After being airborne for 43 minutes, while out over the North Sea in the darkness of night, his plane suffers an electrical failure, taking out his compass and ten-channel radio set. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. I've been wanting to read some aviation fiction recently and I found this when browsing a Kindle deals page and then saw my library had it, so I gave it a shot. This involved moving out to sea, then flying in small triangles, turning left, left, and left again, with each leg of the triangle being of a duration of two minutes' flying time.His experience as a RAF fighter pilot himself is evident in his description of the airframes and life at RAF bases. Many of the negative reviews of this novella are from people who claim that the book description did not state that this is a "short story.
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As to the story, it is quite good as one would expect from an internationally acclaimed work which is particularly admired in the aviation community.Written on Christmas Day 1974, and published near that time a year later, the idea came while trying to think of a setting away from the typical haunted homes, and seeing planes flying overhead. Have not found anything about the Travolta project on IMDb but did find someone using MS Flight simulator to act out the story and an animated short film someone made about two years ago I'd never heard of before. I initially heard the CBC Radio broadcast of this story for Christmas 2012 read by the late Alan Maitland.
The Shepherd (Short 2023) - IMDb The Shepherd (Short 2023) - IMDb
When I came across reviews of this book here on Goodreads I knew at once it would appeal to my husband. The plane is a “shepherd,” guiding the Vampire to a safe landing, and its appearance is a gift from fate, a miracle out of time—but for one lonely pilot, the mystery has just begun.Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Either the de Havilland Vampire pilot is now an American, or we're going to watch the horror of seeing "Vinnie Barbarino" attempt a British accent. Poster for the film is pants, but trailer looks OK, It looks as if Mr Travolta has a non speaking part. There's a very credible rumour / big hints being dropped that there's a film of Frederick Forsyth's 'The Shepherd' currently being made and if the hints prove true, it will be released at Christmas (well, when else? Having never read anything by Frederick Forsyth i thought i'd read it as it was short and an easy addition to my reading challenge.
Frederick Forsyth The Shepherd - Archive.org Frederick Forsyth The Shepherd - Archive.org
The Shepherd is a novella about a 20 year old pilot who, on Christmas Eve 1957, set out from Lower Saxony, Germany to Blighty, UK to celebrate christmas with his family. But despite that and after some very anxious moments,his rescuer guides him to safety,waves in farewell and disappears. In this edition there are also some wonderful illustrations by Lou Feck, who apparently was quite well-known for his book cover illustrations.
As you would expect from a novel this short (look at the number of pages then add in the fact that there are sketches as well and you can truly begin to understand just how short the story really is) events progress at quite a speed, keeping you interested from start to end. Having never read Forsyth before (an author associated with the kind of best-selling thrillers that are translated onscreen into high octane testosterone-driven Hollywood movies raking in the buck), I hit the 'request' button for this quite impulsively on Netgalley (and partly out of curiosity I believe).
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