In Grandpa's Footsteps: A 92-Year-Old Shows How to Start a New Career at 60 de Douglas Dickins - 2000-07-01

Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom: Book Guild Ltd, 2000. First. . Hardcover. Good+/Very Good. 4to. Slightest damp affect to rear board. Dw has light wear to extrems. Npc.

Lewes, East Sussex: The Book Guild, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 161 pages. 256 photographs. Douglas Dickins links three generations in describing his life of woldwide travel and photography. He pays tribute to a father whose life was spent in the Indian Army and a grandfather who served as a Royal Navy surgeon in feudal Japan and then settled as a barrister in Yokohama. But Dickins has plotted his own routes to other fascinating parts of the world, and he provides penetrating and humorous insights into countries as diverse as the former Soviet Union, Mexico, Cambodia, Bali, Madagascar and Pakistan. What makes this collected travelogue a true treasure is that it is lavishly illustrated with the author's own photographs, which form only a small part of the photo library of the world that he has amassed, and now runs as a commercial concern. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.05 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST… Leer más