Simply written with directness and honesty, these reminiscences of an educated and foot-loose wanderer cover the twenty years up to the First World War. From South Africa to Australia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands and Gallipoli, he went wherever work and the promise of adventure took him, meeting in the process a fascinating collection of misfits, 'gentlemen rankers' and romantics who fringed the frontiers of Empire. A book I found both revealing and rewarding.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 23 April 2004 ) |
