My First 80 Years

George Brown wanted to write about his interesting life for his family and friends. He loved writing and kept diaries of some of his adventures during his later life. In 1970 he helped his wife, Nan Brown, to write a book about their adventure living in South Georgia in the Antarctic for two and a half years in the mid-1950s. The book is entitled Antarctic Housewife.

George lived in some very diverse places--Glasgow, Edinburgh, was at sea in the British Merchant Navy sailing to Asia, Africa,...