A Boy on the Last Boat: A Journey Around the World - Tapa blanda

Lochtenberg, Ben

 
9781925367416: A Boy on the Last Boat: A Journey Around the World
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ISBN 10: 192536741X ISBN 13: 9781925367416
Editorial: Brolga Publishing, 2016

Sinopsis

A Singapore 1931 born young colonial Dutch boy, whose Father suffered and died as a Japanese prisoner of war building a railway in Sumatra, escaped from Java with his Mother and arrived as a refugee in Bunbury Australia in 1942. Educated by Jesuits and then at the University of Western Australia and Oxford, he had a career with ICI initially as an engineer, ending in 1993 following senior executive and Board roles in Australia, England, Canada and finally in the United States. His life from childhood in European colonies in Asia, spanned major changes in technology and the chemical industry. With his wife and seven children, he experienced and adjusted to a wide range of cultures and societies. During the twenty years of retirement in Melbourne, he has been active in mental health research, the University of Melbourne and Newman College, support of palliative care, homelessness and refugees, the latter being where his story began.

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Acerca del autor

Bernard Lochtenberg came to Australia in 1942, graduated an engineer at the University of W.A. and a D.Phil. at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He retired Chairman of ICI Canada and ICI Americas in 1993, and Chairman of Orica Ltd in 2001. Director of The Inner and Eastern Health Care Network and Caritas Christi Hospice, Chairman of the Mental Health Research Institute until 2002 , Chairman of the Victorian Government Medical Review in 1995, and Council of the University of Melbourne from 1996 and Deputy Chancellor 2005-2006.

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Editorial
Brolga Publishing
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
192536741X
ISBN 13 
9781925367416
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
306
Contacto del fabricante
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