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A Drift In The Deer Park
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.
Letters from a Schoolboy
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 the experience!
A Runner Reminisces
"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 death in Tunisia, takes part in an Olympic Games Marathon Trial, races up a precipitous Welsh mountain, breaks a world record with his team from Atlanta and shakes hands with Sir Roger Bannister.
An Accidental Immigrant
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 found them in. His childhood dream was to travel the world and he certainly did that. If there is a moral to the story, it is simply this: never give up!
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