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No Discouragement - An Autobiography (Paperback)
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This is the autobiography of a working-class boy who became an
Oxford professor. A.H. Halsey was born in Kentish Town, London, in
1923 - a railway child in a large clan. The family moved in 1926 to
Rutland and then to Northamptonshire because the father had been
wounded in the Great War. Halsey 'won the scholarship' to Kettering
Grammar School in 1933, left school at 16, went into the RAF as a
pilot cadet. The metaphor of travel through time and space is
maintained throughout this autobiography. The story begins with
daily walks past canal boats in Oxford, flashes to the Pacific to
Hong Kong and China, and then to a glimpse of death in the John
Radcliffe Hospital, promising to explain the whole journey from a
council housing estate to a professorial chair at Oxford.
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