Download or read book Last Burrah Sahibs written by Max Scratchmann and published by Steve Savage Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and witty look at the unofficial last years of British Colonial Life as seen through the eyes of a small boy growing up out East in the dissolving remnants of the British Raj... After being compulsorily retired from an Indian jute mill and returning to Dundee in the mid 1960s, Max Scratchmann's family cannot settle down to life in Scotland. So, when the chance of a three-year contract in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) is offered, they promptly fly off to live the colonial life one last time. Aided and abetted by the mischievous Mafzal, his paan-addicted driver, eleven-year-old Max rediscovers the forgotten lifestyle of his early childhood, and meets a cast of colourfully eccentric characters amongst both the emigre British and the indigenous population along the way. On the surface, life for jute wallahs' children may seem to be an endless parade of swimming pool parties and badly-dubbed Italian art movies, but growing political unrest and brushes with street rioting show that these are indeed stolen years, and 'The Last Burrah Sahibs' is an engaging and heartfelt chronicle of growing up in a culture that is now well and truly lost.

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Download or read book Scenes with the Hunter and the Trapper in Many Lands Or Stories of Adventures with Wild Animals written by William Henry Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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