Letter To Grandson Jun: I Found Myself Hiking (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore, 2022
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Paperback. Raised on a farm near Changi (visited by Albert Einstein in the 1920s), Anthony Teo attended Singapore's 19th century St Anthony's Boys School and St Joseph's Institution. Having completed a course at the 330-year-old Harvard at new Cambridge in Massachusetts, USA, Anthony then went in search of America, driving across country from New York to San Francisco, through the mile-high Jackalopean landscape of Wyoming. His co-driver was his friend Leo Soong in his classic 1,000-mile-a-day steed of the 1960s BMW 2002 ti. Leo, who unbeknownst to Anthony at the time, was Madame Chiang Kaishek's favourite nephew.Years later, Anthony was at old Cambridgeshire's 800-year-old University of Cambridge, UK as a Visiting Fellow to complete his hunt for the origins of the two univer-cities (Harvard-Cambridge and Cambridge-Cambridge Market Town). Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Letter To Grandson Jun: I Found Myself Hiking (Paperback)
- Author
- Anthony Soon Chye Teo
- Publisher
- World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore
- Publication year
- 2022
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9811255911
- ISBN 13
- 9789811255915
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About the Author
Yeh-Yeh Yeo aka Anthony Teo grew up on an old farm at the original Frankel Estate and was schooled at the Singapore Christian Brothers' SABS-SJI; Cambridge MA, USA; & Cambridge, UK market town. He was a lucky village kid to have gone on to participate in assignments on all continents except Africa and Latin America. Upon retirement, he turned to writing firstly the four volumes on Univer-Cities and now this Letter to Grandson Jun, in courtly love of his Magnificent six grandchildren ~ XJWYKE.
On a road less travelled, driving 3,000 miles across America, YY takes the role of a sleuth seeking, searching and illustrating. His notations have taken him through the sleepy hollows between disciplines in the hope to uncover more understanding of our world, ourselves and for the next generations to aid in solving increasingly more complex problems. The narrative draws upon clues from a tapestry of connections encompassing geography, history, philosophy, sport, Greek mythology, literature, movies, etc. with YY's personal experiences and enthusiasm. YY nudges all to explore the alluring unbeknownst spaces in between the usual silos of disciplines. His narrative aims to reach the heart of daily challenges which cumulate to lifelong ones if they remain unresolved. His eureka moment ~ 'I found myself (comma) hiking!'
YY's personal in-conversation style of writing, in the mode of a letter, is akin to a private diary of experiences and personal advice shared with young grandson Jun. If I may quote Professor Dr MY Chew, PhD (Tsinghua) from the NUS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Singapore who kindly opined: "Grandson Jun ('tua soon' 大孙) is so fortunate to have a grandpa like YY ('Yeh Yeh' 爷爷; Hanyu Pinyin: yeye), who is enthusiastic in passing on the wisdom to the next generation."
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