Hamish M Brown
Author
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This text tells the story of a remarkable family caught in Japan at the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific. With letters, journal extracts and notes from Hamish Brown's parents, as well as his own recollections, it brings the era to life - not only life in the dying days of the British Empire, but also the terrible reality of the invasion of Singapore into which they escaped.
Author
Publisher
Sandstone
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Television personality, explorer, naturalist and photographer, Tom Weir's dedication took him from impoverished Glasgow to the ends of the earth. This selection of his writings presents them chronologically and forms a sort of autobiography, the life of a man writing as he goes.