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Letters to my parents from British boarding school and university covering the period 1949-1962, ages 9 to 22. Narrowly saved from being burnt when my parents sold their retirement home, the letters give a picture of life at that classic British institution, the all-male private boarding school, during the closing years of the British Empire. In my case the memories of that life are mostly happy and peaceful. I count myself lucky to have had t...

Cold War Road Warrior - A European Adventure This book tells the story of twenty years exploring Europe, East and West, at the height of the Cold War. Driving thousands of miles on rough roads in rough weather through tough traffic across the Soviet Bloc gave real meaning to the term "road warrior". But it was my choice and my adventure! Raised in a provincial English suburb during the austere years in and after the Second World War, I longed ...

Autobiographical memoir of a childhood in Britain during and after World War II up to the end of the author's student years. Includes tuneless singing in an air raid shelter, boardng school in the Scottish Highlands, hitchhiking across France in a kilt, crawling upside down through a rain-soaked Cuillin crag, vomiting my way up Lebanon's highest mountain and sharing a beer with a future king.

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This book describes the author's unintended immigration to America. After arriving in the USA, he spent thirty years traveling the globe for a new scientific employer before finally settling down with the love of his life to enjoy a happy and peaceful retirement. Despite an almost total lack of scientific education, he was fascinated by the science and scientists he became involved with, as well as by the sometimes strange and exotic places he...

A Runner Reminisces" by Andrew Sherwood is a collection of essays on his years of running around the world, from a first disastrous attempt at cross-country in his Scottish boarding school to winning US national championships in late middle age. Along the way he is followed by inquisitive monkeys in Malaysia, attacked by vicious magpies in Australia, runs with an armed escort beside the River Nile in Egypt, narrowly escapes a fate worse than d...

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Excerpt from The Geology of Potter County: Report on the Coal FieldsIt is probable also that far too much of the grey XII and red XI is represented along the whole line of the next basin, from Hector township in the northeast to Portage township in the southwest.With this correction the map will stand, but it must be kept in mind that even where the grey tint for XII is rep resented ii does not mean workable coal land but merely the Conglomera...

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Excerpt from The Geology of Potter County: Report on the Coal FieldsIt is probable also that far too much of the grey XII and red XI is represented along the whole line of the next basin, from Hector township in the northeast to Portage township in the southwest.With this correction the map will stand, but it must be kept in mind that even where the grey tint for XII is rep resented ii does not mean workable coal land but merely the Conglomera...