This has been the life and times of Tom Edwards, a boy raised
during the greatest depression then known to England. He relates
his memories of the second Great War, of his experiences joining
the Royal Navy as an apprentice, and of his time in many parts of
Africa. Tom recalls his experiences in an anti-terrorist unit, of
sailing around the world in a 30-foot boat and being chased by
pirates off the coast of Columbia, and then being wrecked off the
coast of New Zealand in a hurricane. Throughout the autobiography
Tom, Tom Edwards has maintained a sense of humour and tells things
as he remembers them. No autobiography is completely true, but it
is as near the truth as circumspection allows. If Tom's recall of
events and dates fail in some areas, you must forgive him, as an
eighty-two-year-old mind has its limitations. Tom can recall Edward
the Eighth's abdication speech verbatim and his mother's co-op
number from seventy years ago, but events chronologically closer
often elude him. About the Author: Tom Edwards was born in
Hampshire, England, where he spent his early years. After
completing his education, he served six years in the Fleet Air Arm
branch of the Royal Navy. He then made his living for several years
as an artist before moving to Southern Africa, where he worked as a
reporter as well as a mining engineer in South Africa, Zambia and
Namibia, finally settling in what was then Rhodesia. After
travelling the world, he now lives at Lake Macquarie in New South
Wales, Australia. His next book is titled The Hunter. His was a
life full of adventure. Gazing at the heavens while lying on the
cabin roof of a 30-foot boat one thousand miles from the nearest
land, gave Tom Edwards a sense of his incredible insignificance in
the scheme of things. He learned that most people are kind,
generous and innately good, if treated with respect. He loved the
era in which he was born, when foul language was never used in the
home or in company. It was an era when women wore dresses and were
modest and chaste; when men were courteous and manly; when a child
could roam without fear; and mothers stayed home to look after
their family. People lived closer together and had time to
converse. They were mainly poor in wealth and chattels, but rich in
friendships and family experiences. He will be forever grateful for
being born into that era, before too many of the endearing
trappings of living became passe. More About the Author: During the
Rhodesian conflict, Tom Edwards joined the reserve branch of the
security forces where he served on border patrol and in the Marine
Division. There he acquired much of the material for his first book
If I Should Die. He and a friend bought a thirty-foot boat and
sailed around the world for four years; a trip bedevilled by
pirates and hurricanes. After being shipwrecked, Tom continued on
his own to South Africa via Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling and the
Seychelles. His penultimate adventure was to walk from John
O'Groats in northern Scotland to Land's End in southern England,
which took him forty-six days. At the ripe old age of eighty, he
and the son of a friend sailed a 30-foot boat from Hobart,
Tasmania, to Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, where he lives
today. http://sbpra.com/TomEdwards
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