Round The Bend: Nevil ShuteTold in the first person by Tom Cutter, aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur, the story starts with Cutter's boyhood he gets a job with the Alan Cobham "National Aviation Day" flying circus of barnstorming aircraft which take customers up for short joyrides, with other entertainment provided. Cutter meets Shaklin, a boy a little older than himself, half Chinese and half Russian British subject with a deep interest in religion. When the air