| #4762427 in Books | Short Books | 2003-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x5.50 x.75l,1.90 | File Name: 1904095445 | 192 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Tribute to an Interesting Life|By Between the Leaves|Nicholas Wollaston wrote this tribute about his father, who died when Nicholas was only six. The book starts as a biography about Sandy Wollaston - intrepid explorer, doctor, botanist, entomologist, academic - from the late 1890s until his murder by an undergraduate student in 1930. Most of the book is a record of Wo||'When did I last see my father? At tea-time, is the real answer - watching him eat bread and butter with quince jam. It became my final vision of him. A blurred, oblique vignette from the last days of his life, preserved for the rest of mine.'
Nicholas Wollaston was four years old when his father Sandy was killed in 1934—shot dead by one of his Cambridge students. In this memoir, 70 years on, Nicholas finally confronts his loss and goes in search of the father whom he hardly knew. Sandy Wollaston, doctor, botanist, explorer, lived in the last great age of discovery. On extraordinarily tough expeditions to New Guinea, the Sahara, and the Himalayas, he collected new flora and fauna of lasti... [PDF.gq68] My Father, Sandy: A Son's Memoir Rating: 3.75 (437 Votes)
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