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Running the Rapids
Kildare Dobbs
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Description for Running the Rapids
Paperback. A self-portrait of a man of letters driven by a restless hunger for adventure, it takes the readers on a voyage, from a gas-lit big-house childhood in 1930s Tipperary, to college days at Cambridge, enraptured by Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, to commando training and naval service in the World WarII, protecting Allied convoys from Uboat attack. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met many people. His life’s journey, marked by frequent detours and diversions, from Asia to old Europe, Africa and the New World, is that of the quintessential post-colonial Western man at large. In Running the Rapids Dobbs becomes voyageur. He takes us from a lamp-lit, big house childhood in 1930s Kilkenny, to college days at Cambridge in thrall to Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, to commando training and naval service protecting Allied convoys from U-boat attack during World War II. ... Read more
Poet, travel writer, teacher, film-extra in Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet, quiz-show panellist -Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, been many places, met many people. His life’s journey, marked by frequent detours and diversions, from Asia to old Europe, Africa and the New World, is that of the quintessential post-colonial Western man at large. In Running the Rapids Dobbs becomes voyageur. He takes us from a lamp-lit, big house childhood in 1930s Kilkenny, to college days at Cambridge in thrall to Carl Jung and Wilhelm Reich, to commando training and naval service protecting Allied convoys from U-boat attack during World War II. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd Ireland
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781843510703
SKU
V9781843510703
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Kildare Dobbs
KILDARE DOBBS was born in India in October 1923, raised in Ireland, and educated in Dublin, Cambridge and London. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II and in East Africa, before migrating to Canada in 1952. There he earned a living in journalism and publishing, wrote Running to Paradise (1962), ‘autobiography honoured as fiction’ that won a ... Read more
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