Rafe Bates
Born in Iden, Sussex, where great-grandfather ‘Pater’ Bates held the living of Iden for 60 years. Went to six different schools in four different countries – England, Rhodesia, S.Africa, Switzerland, England again, for total of five disrupted years. After unexpectedly matriculating, went immediately to farm in Africa where lived adventurous life in bushveldt and grew innovative crops, exploring, fishing, shooting, painting and motor-racing. In S.Africa lived in Drakensberg Mountains, designing and building houses and winning famous Roof of Africa mountain road-race in car designed, built and driven by author. Moved to Cape Town where designed and built 50’ aluminium alloy schooner “Long John Silver” with subsequent long-distance ocean voyaging with family crew to leaving Africa for good; to manage forestry and other works in Scotland, with more travels, to eventually settle in the Açores to resume writing from the slopes of a volcano in the mid-Atlantic.
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Lest I Forget A Chequered Life
Rafe Bates
Price: £11.24 - Saving £3.75 (25%)From frustration that I was getting old and hadn’t properly written-up my vast experiences for my descendants. I was also annoyed by misreporting and misrepresentation of quite recent history by those who rely on hearsay and have no direct experience...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/12/2011
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Lest I Forget A Chequered Life
Price: £11.24 - Saving 3.75 (25%)
Lest I Forget could be described as a very different sort of memoir. Rafe Bates has lived a full, adventurous and varied life in widely divergent countries and circumstances and he brings his extraordinary experiences vividly to life in his...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/12/2011
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