Someone in the Crowd
James Smith was born the youngest of five children in London's East End (Bow) in the later stages of WW2. He spent time in London's Woodvale Orphanage and Beecholm Children's Home in Surrey. Migrating to Australia in 1960, James spent four years in Sydney (becoming involved with gangsters) and four years in the extreme bush, including (with Aboriginal and government permission) two years in Arnhem Land - an Aboriginal reserve of 97,000 square kilometres east of Darwin - where he became the first known white man to travel through Deaf Adder Gorge. Returning to England in 1968, James soon realised that the desperate search for adventure that ha…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78629-199-8
- EAN: 9781786291998
- Produktnummer: 32336720
- Verlag: Austin Macauley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 396 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.5 cm 759 g
- Gewicht: 759
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Jim Smith has spent his life on ballfields, basketball courts and in his mancave assigning ball games to umpires and basketball officials. From his childhood in eastern North Carolina, to college at East Carolina University, and throughout his public school teaching career baseball was his passion. Now retired from both officiating personally several thousand contests and assigning an amazing 55,000 games, he shares his poignant and humorous stories with others who share his love of sports.
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