{"product_id":"9780007296736_stanley-i-presume","title":"Stanley I Presume?","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rip-roaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson – father of London mayor Boris Johnson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley's story begins with a loud bang – when his father, an RAF pilot in the Second World War, crash-lands a Wellington bomber in a Devon airfield. A few years later, Stanley's parents buy a sheep farm on nearby Exmoor, where Stanley does much of his growing up. Stanley would keep his links with this much-loved rural idyll throughout his life – while going on to become an explorer, author, occasional politician and also one of the world's first environmentalists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanley married and started a family young – Boris was born in New York when his father was twenty-three – and while Boris would go on to become big news, the family's forbears also provide quite a story, as Stanley finds out. For the Johnson family's 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 are direct descendants of George II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA sparkling raconteur and experienced thriller writer, in 'Stanley, I Presume?', Stanley Johnson tells great stories in an unsurpassable style.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46895381610645,"sku":"9780007296736","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780007296736_fc501da9-66f0-47b5-89bd-5a706e3ca20b.jpg?v=1776888526","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780007296736_stanley-i-presume","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}