Travels of a Tourist: Anecdotes, Reminiscences and Reflections

by Paddy Rooney

Overview

This is a collection of anecdotes and reminiscences of the authors travels over many years and in many countriesfrom Uzbekistan to Peru, Yemen to India, Spain to China. It is in no sense intended as a guidebook, though it may give something of the character of the people encountered and the places visited. As the author explains in the foreword it is intended as entertainment rather than education in order to share with others his delight in foreign places.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524593162
Publisher:	Xlibris UK
Publication date:	07/21/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	110
File size:	225 KB

About the Author

Paddy Rooney was born in Calcutta in 1931. He returned to England to go to boarding school at the age of six, while his parents returned to India. Early in World War II, he returned to India, stopping in South Africa for eighteen months on the way. Finally, he returned to Britain in 1945. In 1949 he joined the Royal Navy, went to Cambridge University to read engineering, and retired from the navy in 1968 to work in a city think tank and, subsequently, in the engineering industry. He retired in 1991 to help on the family farm and to indulge his interest in travel.