A Funny Old Quist: The Memoirs of a Gamekeeper - Softcover

Evans Rogers

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906011125 ISBN 13: 9781906011123

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

In "The Missionaries" Norman Lewis brings together a lifetime's experience of travelling in tribal lands in a searing condemnation of the lethal impact of North American fundamentalist Christian missionaries on aboriginal life throughout the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Maurice Collis was born in 1889, the son of an Irish solicitor. He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and was posted to Burma, rising to the position of district magistrate in Rangoon in 1929, where the independence of his judgments displeased his superiors who moved him to the position of Excise Commissioner. He returned to England in 1934. He wrote over twenty books, including volumes of autobiography, travel writing, novels, histories and three plays. He died in 1973.

From the Inside Flap:

Evan Rogers worked as a gamekeeper on the same Herefordshire estate for 68 years. His story takes us back to an idyll of rural England, when the land was tended by many, the villages were full of industry, the Big House full of guests and the kitchens proudly filled with local produce. If Rogers summons up a lost Arcadia of self-sufficiency, bird-song and wild flowers he is also too honest not to recall the appalling poverty and ignorance, and his own brutal father. He also lets slip many a stinging aside about the semi-feudal establishment of which he was such a loyal servant.

Whether he is rescuing flamingos from ice, helping a young woman to give birth in the fields while gathering stones for a shilling a ton or simply doing his morning rounds, his company is enchanting.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1906011125
• ISBN 13: 9781906011123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Clive Murphy