Going Down Another Lane

A life of adventure, travel, and zest for new opportunities.

John Young first left England, at 10 days old, for Sierra Leone with his missionary parents in 1934. After a childhood spent between Africa, the Yorkshire moors, and English boarding schools, he set off at 17 alone for New Zealand to be a forester and then to university, paying his way with an assortment of jobs from boatbuilder to wharfie to postman. Pursuing a career on the stage was somehow combined with completing an MA degree,...