Enyway... a Jump is a Jump
Thornton & Thornton Publications (Verlag)
978-0-9559639-0-2 (ISBN)
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This book was conceived by Brian and Verity Thornton as a memorial to their son, Giles, who was murdered in Kenya ten years ago. Giles enjoyed a style of life of his own choosing: an adventurous, wild spirit took him on some epic journeys in the Africa that he grew to love. Along the way, he turned his hands to things that many of us only dream about. Working alone with African tribesmen capturing rare species of animals for educative filming and for setting up new breeding programmes; paragliding and free fall parachuting over the open bush; wild and lonely motorcycle safaris in uncharted country; culling zebra; surviving close encounters with lions; sleeping on the wrong side of the lip of a volcano and charitable work with the UN and 'Save the Rhino'.But it is also the story of a man with a deep love of wildlife, native cultures, the freedom of the air and a deep sense of history. A man who had special communications skills (despite his dyslexia) and made friends wherever he went - friends who turned up in their hundreds to witness his 'bush' cremation in Kenya at the spot that he loved the best.
Alan Hoe is a freelance writer and researcher living in Dorset despite being born, reared and educated in Yorkshire. He joined the British Army in 1957 as a boy soldier prior to volunteering for service with the SAS in 1960 where he remained until his retirement in 1981. Commercial life took him for long periods to work in Latin America as a consultant in many of the kidnap cases which are part of daily life on that continent. His previous books include Terrorism: Threat and Response (with Eric Morris); The Negotiator (a biographical work written under the nom de plume 'James March'; Re-enter the SAS (The reformation of the SAS during the Malayan Emergency); the best selling David Stirling: The Authorised Biography of the Creator of the SAS and Go Boldly: The Story of Major Richard J Meadows.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.9.2008 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations (some col.), maps |
| Verlagsort | Waterlooville |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 173 x 246 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie | |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-9559639-0-7 / 0955963907 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-9559639-0-2 / 9780955963902 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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