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This book attempts to bring the 'seven ages' of the author's life together, blending his experiences recorded in his seminal autobiography 'Against the Grain' and 'Another Story', a tale of a son and a daughter of two villages in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. School days in Guiana, Glasgow, and Fife, two years in the Army, and six years studying Medicine turned the boy into a doctor. Dreaming dreams with Avril, their marriage, their family an...

School days in Guiana, Glasgow and Fife, two years in the Army and six years studying Medicine turned the boy into a doctor. Dreaming dreams with Avril, their marriage, their family and their affinity for common spiritual and material values set them on a pilgrimage of repeated challenges. Three years in a mission hospital in apartheid South Africa, conflicting interests of specialization and family responsibilities didn't deter the writer fro...

School days in Guiana, Glasgow and Fife, two years in the Army and six years studying Medicine turned the boy into a doctor. Dreaming dreams with Avril, their marriage, their family and their affinity for common spiritual and material values set them on a pilgrimage of repeated challenges. Three years in a mission hospital in apartheid South Africa, conflicting interests of specialization and family responsibilities didn't deter the writer fro...

This book is the tale of a son and a daughter of two villages in the Kingdom of Fife, in Scotland. Their similarities in background in coal-mining East Fife, and their decidedly different outlooks on life grounded on quite different life-styles, are confronted in the light of our national divided society over the past three hundred years since the time of Alexander Selkirk and Robinson Crusoe. Love thrived on conflicts of mind and ideologies. ...