Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
Image 1 of 1
This is a biography of the life of the author's parents, Claude and Muriel Sara (née Tyack) and their families, between the late nineteenth century and 1975. A story of love, travel and adventure, as well as a glimpse of life in Cornwall.
Claude, as a geologist and surveyor, worked in the gold fields of Tasmania, the Egyptian desert and the oil fields of Russia, where an encounter with Rasputin and the family's escape from the country in 1915 are described. The account continues with Claude's years in the West Indies, the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, to Trinidad, and an expedition to Venezuela, where he witnessed the loading of the first tanker of oil to leave that country.
In his forties, Claude was ordained as a priest in the Church of England, and the latter part of the book relates to his life in Cornwall as a parson.
There are vivid descriptions of the Sara's experiences in the First and Second World Wars and the author's years as a Nursing Sister during the London Blitz in the 1940s.
The material in the early part of the book is obtained from letters Claude and Muriel wrote to one another and to their children, also from written accounts and three short published books left by Muriel. The latter part is written from personal memory.
ISBN: 9781852000622
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: hardback
Length: 174
This is a biography of the life of the author's parents, Claude and Muriel Sara (née Tyack) and their families, between the late nineteenth century and 1975. A story of love, travel and adventure, as well as a glimpse of life in Cornwall.
Claude, as a geologist and surveyor, worked in the gold fields of Tasmania, the Egyptian desert and the oil fields of Russia, where an encounter with Rasputin and the family's escape from the country in 1915 are described. The account continues with Claude's years in the West Indies, the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, to Trinidad, and an expedition to Venezuela, where he witnessed the loading of the first tanker of oil to leave that country.
In his forties, Claude was ordained as a priest in the Church of England, and the latter part of the book relates to his life in Cornwall as a parson.
There are vivid descriptions of the Sara's experiences in the First and Second World Wars and the author's years as a Nursing Sister during the London Blitz in the 1940s.
The material in the early part of the book is obtained from letters Claude and Muriel wrote to one another and to their children, also from written accounts and three short published books left by Muriel. The latter part is written from personal memory.
ISBN: 9781852000622
Size: 217x140mm
Binding: hardback
Length: 174
