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Far Away and Further Back

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After his first overseas assignment to the USA in 1975 - just twenty-three with a suitcase and a guitar - corporate nomad, Patrick Burns, kept on moving from country to country rarely declining a fresh challenge in a new location. In these stories from four decades of living and working around the world, he relives some of his most memorable experiences: from dangerous pyrotechnic liaisons in the Algerian desert to a quest to find the Archbishop of Rangoon after a chance meeting in an English village church. The locations and circumstances run the gamut of the quotidian to the exotic; context and time are less relevant than who is met, what transpires and how the experience says something about the human condition. This exploration of the personal landscape of expatriate life is interwoven with a navigation of some of the ties that have bound his unusual Anglo-German family during the past century; a mixture of hardcore Yorkshire eccentricity (including a grandfather whose obsession with installing indoor toilets inadvertently led to a twenty-five year family rift) and a liberal academic, Hanoverian heritage disoriented by Hitler, the events of 1939-45 and Cold War detente.


  • | Author: Patrick Burns
  • | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • | Publication Date: May 03, 2018
  • | Number of Pages: 194 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1986213870
  • | ISBN-13: 9781986213875
Author:
Patrick Burns
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date:
May 03, 2018
Number of pages:
194 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1986213870
ISBN-13:
9781986213875