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by Leonard Protheroe
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781905609062
All In A Lifetime follows Leonard
Protheroe from humble beginnings
in a two-up-two-down in the East
End of London to palatial marbleclad
suites in some of India's finest
residences. Along the way he must
endure witnessing his neighbourhood,
and everything he holds familiar,
being destroyed by attacks during
the blitz, inept co-workers, shipwrecking
in the open sea, malaria,
tigers, snakes, mutiny, amoebic
dysentery, marauding elephants,
cholera and other life defining
moments that will shape his existence
forever. The memoir charts his
progress from an entrepreneurial,
but naïve, young man growing up in
the advent of the machine, when
employment was scarce, to fourth
Engineer on a doomed cargo ship, to
successful and respected family
man, in charge of one of India's
biggest tea growing estates.
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