Dangerous Ways Buchanan George
Dangerous Ways Buchanan George "To venture to the road meant entering a dangerous world in which high-handed and overbearing vans and hard uncompromising lorries thundered past the narrow pavement…
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Dangerous Ways Buchanan George
"To venture to the road meant entering a dangerous world in which high-handed and overbearing vans and hard uncompromising lorries thundered past the narrow pavement that we had to walk on. A short way from our gate, it had the rumble of artillery." In August 1947, on the author's sixth birthday, he and his mother arrived from England in Tobruk, Libya. The road, though our neighbour, was not a being we felt kin to.
This officer was his father, from whom he would acquire a sense of guilt and insecurity. Waiting on the quay to meet them was a stranger, an officer in the British Army. But in Libya first of all, and then in Egypt, he would also come across new worlds to take hold of his imagination.
The family's return to England as the 1940s ended would be followed once again by their departure and the author's own arrival at a London boarding school. Turning to others for mental and