An Accidental Life

by Harold Drayton
An Accidental Life
  • ISBN-13: 9781910553879
  • Author(s): Harold Drayton
  • Subject: BMH
  • Publisher: Hansib Publications
  • Imprint: Hansib E Books
  • Publication Date: 01-08-2017
  • Format: Electronic book text

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An Accidental Life is a portrait of a man who played a significant role in the history of education and health in the Caribbean. Harold Drayton's passionate and meticulous memoir offers, first, a precious account of colonial British Guiana. He maps the impacton him of his home, into which his birth was an accident, the influence of his working-class autodidact stepfather, of his schools, and of war and politics in the 1940s.
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An Accidental Life is a portrait of a man who played a significant role in the history of education and health in the Caribbean. Harold Drayton's passionate and meticulous memoir offers, first, a precious account of colonial British Guiana. He maps the impacton him of his home, into which his birth was an accident, the influence of his working-class autodidact stepfather, of his schools, and of war and politics in the 1940s.

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