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Gibbon's Years (Paperback)
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Gibbon's Years (Paperback)
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Loot Price R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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The title of this intriguing book derives from Edward Gibbon's
description of the second century AD as the time of the greatest
happiness and prosperity in the history of the world. Jock
Macdonald puts the eighty years of his lifetime under a lens to
consider to what extent Gibbon's description holds good for the
Western World in the period since the Second World War. His lens is
his own worldview and its focus changes from that of early
childhood in wartime India, through adolescence in Scotland and
England during the lean years of the 50s, to a successful career in
education, followed by a committed involvement in both local and
national politics. Interspersed are a series of delightful
interludes involving in particular his lifelong passions for
classical history and literature, archaeology, and the joys and
perils of owning a derelict cottage in Umbria. What makes the book
much more than a memoir of a life well lived is the intent behind
it. The author is a serious environmentalist who sees lurking
behind the good years of the second half of the twentieth century
'intimations of calamity just over the horizon'. Already by the end
of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the Climate
Crisis is widely seen as a calamity with greater potential for
disaster than anything Gibbon could have imagined. Macdonald
accepts that as individuals we may be powerless on a global scale,
but that we can and must speak out. He does this now through his
debut book about a life spent asking questions and helping others.
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