Blowing My Own Trumpet
- ISBN-10
- 1782223401
- ISBN-13
- 9781782223405
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-10-27
- Publisher
- Paragon Publishing
- Author
- Michael Faunce-Brown
Description
MULTI-TALENTED EX-HEADTEACHER gives an account of war time in an English boarding school, losing his father from 1939-1946 while he was fighting Mr Hitler, not entirely solo; hostile neighbours on a Welsh hill farm, running an armoured regiment’s transport in Jordan, aged only nineteen, working on a New Zealand sheep farm, playing very coarse rugby, cleaning out an uncased well, playing in a dance band, teaching in the UK and being a Headmaster, losing his wife to cancer after a thirteen year struggle, writing and producing a full feature action movie, “Fight Back”, on DVD with Echelon Studios.com, life in New Zealand again and Australia, making documentary films, filming from Beijing to Helsinki and also Botswana and much more. “So many people have nagged me to write the story of my life, so I have given in.”
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- 2008-04-15
- 96 pages
- Paperback
- Tempus Pub Limited
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