And that's the way of it' : The life of Geordie Mainland as told to Jim Mainland
Mainland, Jim2019
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Geordie Mainland's role in the momentous events of D-Day - the largest ever seaborne invasion- is a key event in his life story. The operations of the 712th Landing Craft Personnel (Survey) Flotilla are not generally known and Geordie's sole surviving voice is therefore all the more important. Geordie's life spans almost a century of unparalleled technological change. Home was a small croft house without electricity or running water in the days when a hard living was won from fishing and working the land. He left school at 13 without any formal qualifications. Geordie remembers fishermen consulting Norwegian witches for favourable winds, and knew people whose immediate forebears had encountered the infamous Black Eric and lived to tell the tale. The world may have changed utterly, but Geordie took it all in his stride. His advice is simple. Keep active, keep an open mind, don't take things too seriously - and, if you can, don't forget to find some time in among it all to prepare the chips
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Lerwick Shetland Times, 2019.
ISBN:
9781910997277
Dewey class:
920
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English
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BRN:
3907908
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