Under Different Skies: The Life of a Wandering Geologist

Under Different Skies takes the reader to several countries in Africa and the Middle East during the 1950’s and 60’s at a time when many changes were happening. World War Two had caused a huge awakening in this region. All-terrain vehicles and transistor radios were changing the expectations of people in many countries and revolution was always in the air. The book gives a glimpse of conditions in these countries as they were then, and how geological exploration parties had to cope with the...