A Gap in the Market
Macdonogh, Jeremy F
When Jeremy Macdonogh left the ivory towers of Cambridge University in 1970, the United Kingdom was on the brink of melt-down. His degree in History and Philosophy was utterly unsalable in the real world. Few graduates would land a salary unless their degrees were in some banausic discipline, like Medicine or Law. The author, in consequence, 'wasted' a few years in Europe, the story of which he has told in A Gap Year or Two. In the process, ho...