Aiming High - Couverture souple

Lenthall, Geoff

 
9781517067038: Aiming High

Synopsis

From his schooldays at Scunthorpe Grammar School ambitions to have an RAF career, Formula One racing driver or a professional footballer to the realisation of dreams and a life filled with action adventure and travel – as well as the odd career change - this autobiography shows how one ordinary man can live life to the full.But through the action and adventure, the RAF career and subsequent career change, the author wonders what could have been. The fact that he never achieved the fame of David Beckham, Douglas Bader or Lewis Hamilton can only be blamed on the Education Authorities for failing in their duty to provide him with the necessary qualifications to further his ambitions. Or could the fault lay with the author who was too optimistic and lacked the necessary will to succeed. Read the book and form your own opinion.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

From his schooldays at Scunthorpe Grammar School ambitions to have an RAF career, Formula One racing driver or a professional footballer to the realisation of dreams and a life filled with action adventure and travel – as well as the odd career change - this autobiography shows how one ordinary man can live life to the full. But through the action and adventure, the RAF career and subsequent career change, the author wonders what could have been. The fact that he never achieved the fame of David Beckham, Douglas Bader or Lewis Hamilton can only be blamed on the Education Authorities for failing in their duty to provide him with the necessary qualifications to further his ambitions. Or could the fault lay with the author who was too optimistic and lacked the necessary will to succeed. Read the book and form your own opinion.

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