Words of Passage

About the Book

The writer is a published author who has specialised in Antarctic voyages and personalities. His autobiography covers both work and travel in many parts of the world, starting in New Zealand, moving on to Sydney, Australia, then to England and Fleet Street before the call of the sun lures him to Dar es Salaam, in Tanganyika, East Africa, where he finds a new life, many adventures and where he meet an amazing array of interesting people, all of which he brings to life in this most readable book.

About the Author

She was born Bhadrabala Barot, and is now Bala Thomson. As one of eight children of strict Hindu parents, she might have expected a calm orthodox life, but her parents were also liberal thinkers. They educated their children to question any of the values by which they were guided into life’s challenges. Bala’s Story tells of one Indian girl’s journey from a quiet East African country into a western world that was moving fast from its own traditions, no more so than the fusion of east and west as two young people in love find their place in the new multi-racial, multi-cultural world they were helping to create.