Escape from Jupiter

by David Ogilvy

An adventure based on an Australian television series. When a volcanic eruption on one of Jupiter's moons destroys the mining colony, Michael, Kumiko, Gerard, Anna, Kingston and a small group of surviving adults are forced to flee their crumbling world.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

David Mackenzie Ogilvy was born in West Horsley, England, on June 23, 1911. He was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and at Christ Church, Oxford (although he didn't graduate).
david ogilvy After Oxford, Ogilvy went to Paris, where he worked in the kitchen of the Hotel Majestic. He learned discipline, management - and when to move on: "If I stayed at the Majestic I would have faced years of slave wages, fiendish pressure, and perpetual exhaustion." He returned to England to sell cooking stoves, door-to-door.
Ogilvy's career with Aga Cookers was astonishing. He sold stoves to nuns, drunkards, and everyone in between. In 1935 he wrote a guide for Aga salesmen (Fortune magazine called it "probably the best sales manual ever written"). Among its suggestions, "The more prospects you talk to, the more sales you expose yourself to, the more orders you will get. But never mistake quantity of calls for quality of salesmanship."

In 1938, Ogilvy emigrated to the United States, where he went to work for George Gallup's Audience Research Institute in New Jersey. Ogilvy cites Gallup as one of the major influences on his thinking, emphasizing meticulous research methods and adherence to reality...

Reviews

[Hannah Bellamy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this! I read it when I was a kid in elementary school and became obsessed with science and space because of this book. My brother found a used copy for Christmas this year and it’s been such a joy rereading my favourite childhood book, so much nostalgia in the pages. Always a 5/5 book for me.

[Daniel Gaul · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was interesting; I first saw two episodes of the TV series back in the late '90s, but finally got the chance to watch the entire series AND read the novelization!