All Over the Place: A Life (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Valley Press, Driffield, 2013
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Paperback. All Over the Place: A Life is the autobiography of Ron Southerton a life both ordinary and remarkable. Ron joined the army in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, and served in Tripoli, Libya and Aden. Leaving the army as a Major, he became editor of an academic journal, before being head-hunted by a Swedish company responsible for industrial gas turbines, which eventually led him to a spell in Baghdad, Iraq. Ron then returned to the UK, finding success as a freelance translator in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.Ron's story is a mixture of laughter and sorrow, quiet days and more adventurous moments including the day he confronted Robert Maxwell in his Oxford office for overdue translation fees, the day he rode on the footplate of the Mallard at 99mph from Doncaster to King's Cross, and the day he found himself on the east side of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War.Ron Southerton is a retired Chartered Engineer, living in Scarborough. His recent translations include works by the Swedish humorist Albert Engstroem. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- All Over the Place: A Life (Paperback)
- Author
- Ron Southerton
- Publisher
- Valley Press, Driffield
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1908853255
- ISBN 13
- 9781908853257
'Family folklore always had it that my birth had been rather dramatic - for my mother, that is. Apparently she was in mortal danger when her second child was delivered at home with great difficulty on the 14th of January 1925. At first, all efforts were properly devoted to saving mother while the newborn was temporarily consigned to the floor. Later, they picked him up to discover that 'the little blighter's still alive!'
All Over the Place: A Life is the autobiography of retired Charted Engineer Ron Southerton; a life both ordinary and remarkable; recognisable and unusual. With his teenage years overshadowed by the Second World War, Ron joined the army in the immediate aftermath of that conflict, and served in Palestine, Tripoli, Korea and Aden. Leaving the army as a Major, he became editor of a monthly academic journal, before being head-hunted by a Swedish company responsible for industrial gas turbines - with this career eventually leading him to a spell as area manager in Baghdad, before returning to the UK to work as a freelance translator in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
As the book's title suggests, the story of those years is told with plenty of self-deprecating humour - 'my memory is so bad,' Ron confesses, 'I can no longer remember what it is I have forgotten'. Highlights include the day he confronted Robert Maxwell in his Oxford office for overdue translation work fees (and won), the day he rode on the footplate of Mallard at 99mph from Doncaster to King's Cross, and the day he found himself on the east side of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War...
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