Other Times, Other Places - Yule, Donald
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OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES is a book based on the unique diaries kept by two ordinary young Scots at two different times on two different sojourns in two different continents in the 1930's. The two Scots are the author's Mum and Dad whose observations of travel to and life in Western Australia and then Sierra Leone give a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. The modern reader is given a picture of the background of both diarists in industrial central Scotland and of the society which shaped their attitudes to the pioneering culture where they found themselves. Comprehensively researched with…mehr

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OTHER TIMES, OTHER PLACES is a book based on the unique diaries kept by two ordinary young Scots at two different times on two different sojourns in two different continents in the 1930's. The two Scots are the author's Mum and Dad whose observations of travel to and life in Western Australia and then Sierra Leone give a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. The modern reader is given a picture of the background of both diarists in industrial central Scotland and of the society which shaped their attitudes to the pioneering culture where they found themselves. Comprehensively researched with helpful Notes and Appendices which explain a wide range of topical or technical allusions, the book includes many hitherto unpublished sketches and photographs and the cooperation of Family Historians has enabled the inclusion of current illustrations of those scenes.
Autorenporträt
Once described as an "unreconstructed Scot", Donald Yule is a retired Charity Finance Director who makes no pretence to be a historian although he hopes that his time helping the expert members of the Douglas Haig Fellowship means that this work has more of their style than of his Annual Report and Accounts! Now a resident of St Leonard's on Sea, East Sussex, Donald was a familiar figure for many years in the stand at Rosslyn Park FC and supporting Middlesex CCC from the Pavilion at Lord's Cricket Ground as rugby and cricket have been lifetime interests and he has performed many roles in both sports. Having earlier contributed to those games in Warrington and Widnes, he will also be remembered in Merseyside and London as a formidable player of Team Quizzing, an intense Mind Sport, which was the subject of his only other book Playing From Memory [Beccon Publications, 2003]. Retired also from that activity and honoured with the Life Presidency of the Quiz League of London which he founded, Donald finds time to support his local club, Hastings & Bexhill RFC and still likes short walks and long lunches.