Gavin David Young (24 April 1928 – 18 January 2001) was a journalist and travel writer.
He was born in Bude, Cornwall, England. His father, Gavin Young, was a lieutenant colonel in the Welsh Guards. Daphne, his mother, was the daughter of Sir Charles Leolin Forestier-Walker, Bt, of Monmouthshire.[1][2]
Young spent most of his youth in Cornwall and South Wales. He graduated from Oxford University, where he studied modern history.[3]
Young spent two years with the Ralli Brothers shipping company in Basra in Iraq before living with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.[4] He fashioned his experiences into a book, Return to the Marshes (1977). In 1960, from Tunis, he joined The Observer of London as a foreign correspondent, and was the Observer's correspondent in Paris and New York. He had covered fifteen wars and revolutions throughout the world, and worked for The Guardian and was a travel writer.[1]
Young died in London on 18 January 2001; he was 72 years old.[1]
- Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, 1977 - travels with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq (photographs by Nik Wheeler)
- Iraq: Land of Two Rivers, 1980 - travels in Mesopotamia
- Slow Boats to China, 1981 - travel round the world by water transport
- Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey, 1983
- Slow Boats Home, 1985 - travel round the world by water transport
- Worlds Apart, 1987 - a collection of journalistic articles
- Beyond Lion Rock, 1987 - the story of Cathay Pacific Airways
- "Introduction" to a new edition of Uttermost Part of the Earth by Lucas Bridges, 1987
- In Search of Conrad, 1991 (Thomas Cook Travel Book Award)
- From Sea to Shining Sea: Present-day Journey into America's Past, 1996
- A Wavering Grace: A Vietnamese Family in War and Peace, 1997 – a Vietnamese family in war and peace
- Eye on the World, 1999
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