Postcards from the PastA collection of prose with many photographs, to dip into and find items of interest. It includes a novella and a short story, along with reminiscences from places as far apart as Greece and the Pacific, Arabia and Africa to the Antarctic.Much of the book is autobiographical, written from jottings made whilst waiting at airports or during long train and coach journeys over the past thirty years. |
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Contents
Lieutenant Hoppers Dilemma novella | 1 |
Walking to Byzantium travelogue | 107 |
travelogue | 209 |
A tale of Africa short story | 235 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Postcards from the Past |
| Author | Charles Clayton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Charles A. Clayton , 2016 |
| ISBN | 1526203359, 9781526203359 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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