Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword by Rt Hon The Lord Hunt of Wirral MBE Foreword by Valerie Mitchell, OBE, Director-General The English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth Introduction Author’s Note The First Step: 1 The Beginnings 2 Fun and Games 3 A Good Environment The Second Step: School Days and Conflict 4 The Grammar School 5 Came the War The Third Step: Navy Days 6 Wake Up! 7 The Holiday Camp and Worse 8 The Midshipman The Fourth Step: Back to Reality 9 Return to Ceylon 10 Back to Wales 11 A Study Regimen The Fifth Step: Singapore: Lion City 12 The Undelivered Message 13 Friends and Acquaintances 14 Sarawak and Broadcasting Days 15 The Railway Victims 16 There Was Still an Emergency 17 Mount Pleasant The Sixth Step: Burma: Land of the Crested Lion 18 Intruders 19 Maymyo, Taunggi and Miss Gulliver The Seventh Step: Indonesia: A Multitude of Islands 20 Culture 21 P?nasihat 22 The Mob The Eighth Step: Japan: Land of the Rising Sun 23 Some Surprises 24 Tokyo Perspectives 25 Culture Learning 26 How English Works 27 Celebrities The Ninth Step: Hawaii to Hong Kong 28 Return to the Service 29 Reflections References Notes Index
Verner C. Bickley, after Cardiff University and service in the Royal Navy in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), joined the British Colonial Service and served as an Education Officer in Singapore before joining the British Council in Burma, Indonesia and Japan. He later returned to the Overseas Service as Director of the Hong Kong Government's Institute of Language in Education. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong and Chairman of the English-Speaking Union, Hong Kong.
'In this informed personal narrative, Verner Bickley shows empathy, sympathy and concern for those ha has met, irrespective of their place in the world. He uses his own passage through time and terrain to illustrate and bring alive what the world has been like for many persuasions and personalities of people.' - The Rt Hon the Lord Hunt of Wirral, MBE, Chairman, The English-Speaking Union of the Commonwealth
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
