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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Employed during his National Service bya brilliant but eccentric general GerardMorgan-Grenville learned that your destinyis largely what you make it. He soon veeredoff the conventional career path to follow hisprinciples and beliefs. Short of money he setup as a merchant adventurer; falling in lovewith a canal boat he pioneered passengerbarges on the French waterways; enrapturedby travel he pursued projects fromAzerbaijan to Antarctica; passionate aboutrailways he developed hotel trains inScotland and Siberia; deeply concerned byenvironmental decline he founded theground-breaking Centre for AlternativeTechnology in Wales and co-founded theGreen Alliance.This vibrant account of an unconventionalexistence is packed with hilarious anecdote.Whether he is bashing the nuclear powerindustry crossing the Sahara Desert build-ing follies designing ships making clocks orflying a slalom between the chimneys of arefinery Morgan-Grenvilleis sure to entertain and provoke.His fascinating story reveals how little theniceties of professional training financialability or accepted viewpoints actually mat-ter in the successful pursuit of dreams.