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Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. A Monkey's Wedding: A Pioneering Family's Seven-generation Saga in Southern Africa. Book.
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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 402 pages. 6.00x0.89x9.00 inches. In Stock.
Edité par CatMatDog, 2026
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Edité par CatMatDog, 2026
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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 334 pages. 6.00x0.75x9.00 inches. In Stock.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "A rollicking adventure, written with wit and grace, about a remarkable family that spanned an empire and helped forge a continent. I loved it." Douglas Rogers, author of The Last Resort and Two Weeks in November.Every family has its stories. Ours just happen to involve empires, 1820 Settlers at… the Cape, 1890 Pioneers in Rhodesia. War heroes. International sportsmen. A roll call of colourful characters who chased gold, dug diamonds, and brought sugar farming to Africa. That's the heroic version. But the reality is messier and even more interesting.Bad bets and lost fortunes, surviving shipwrecks and land-mines and German grandmothers, suing a Zulu chief, a fishing trip hijacked by 29 hippos, being coached by Barry Richards and Greer Stevens, a murdered housemaid, shopping trips with an Uzi, serial boarding school floggings, meeting Miss World Penny Ray, playing rugby against the All Blacks and British Lions, negotiating with a despotic Zimbabwean president, and many more amazingly true stories."Africa can still be mined for stories, and A Monkey's Wedding is gold. It is the grit and serendipity, the bravery and the unexpected, that gives depth and fascination to Lloyd's multi-generational tale. Compelling!" Rick Antonson, author of Slumach's Gold and To Timbuktu for a Haircut. Sadly, I'm not the even the hero of my own life story because it turns out my family tree is full of real heroes.'A Monkey's Wedding' tells the true story of my family's seven-generation journey through southern Africa, set against the rise and retreat of empire. What happened to those who emigrated to the UK and Australia? And what happened to those who stayed behind? And why one cousin even returned with a young family from Australia to Zimbabwe. Think of it as a 200-year South Africa and Rhodesia life story, choc-full of true stories of Southern African pioneer history and African frontier history. But 'A Monkey's Wedding' is more than just my colonial Africa personal story . there are probably universal similarities to your family, with the themes of adventure and adaptation, and having the balls to go and find a better life on the other side of the world. If you enjoyed the writing of Peter Godwin and Alexandra Fuller, this memoir could be for you."A fascinating, sweeping tale of one extended family's roots and lives in wild places and tumultuous times."Tony Park, best-selling author of Far Horizon. With 24 pages of rare, some never-published, photos. Plus maps of South Africa and Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe showing areas of activity, and brief history timelines of both countries to help put everything in context. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "A fascinating, sweeping tale of one extended family's roots and lives in wild places and tumultuous times."Tony Park, best-selling author of Far Horizon.Every family has its stories. Ours just happen to involve empires, 1820 Settlers at the Cape, 1890 Pioneers in Rhodesia. War heroes. Internati…onal sportsmen. A roll call of colourful characters who chased gold, dug diamonds, and brought sugar farming to Africa.That's the 'heroic' version.But the reality is messier and even more interesting.Bad bets and lost fortunes, surviving shipwrecks and land-mines and German grandmothers, suing a Zulu king, a fishing trip hijacked by 29 hippos, being coached by Barry Richards and Greer Stevens, a murdered housemaid, shopping trips with an Uzi, serial boarding school floggings, going to church with Miss World Penny Ray, playing rugby against the All Blacks and British Lions, negotiating with a despotic Zimbabwean president, and more amazingly true stories. So I'm not even the hero of my own life story!'A Monkey's Wedding' tells the true story of my family's seven-generation journey through southern Africa, set against the rise and retreat of empire. What happened to those who emigrated to the UK and Australia? And what happened to those who stayed behind? And why one cousin even returned with a young family from Australia to Zimbabwe.Think of it as a 200-year South Africa and Rhodesia life story, choc-full of true stories of Southern African pioneer history and African frontier history. But 'A Monkey's Wedding' is more than just my colonial Africa personal story . there are probably universal similarities to your family, with the themes of adventure and adaptation, and having the balls to go and find a better life on the other side of the world.If you enjoyed the writing of Peter Godwin and Alexandra Fuller, this memoir could be for you.With 24 pages of rare, some never-published, photos. Plus maps of South Africa and Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe showing areas of activity, and brief history timelines of both countries to help put everything in context. A seven-generation family saga spanning 200 years across southern Africa and the British Empire. Weaves together multi-generational adventures from 1820 Cape Settlers to 1890 Rhodesian pioneers to wartime heroes and modern diaspora overseas. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A Secret Memoir of Living Hell . Revisited.British officer Capt Hugh Pilkington of the Royal Norfolks enjoyed the full and fun life of a rubber planter in pre-war Malaya. Then war broke out and he found himself fighting in Johor. Shot by a sniper, he was hospitalised in Singapore, only for the h…ospital to be overrun by the Japanese in a horrific massacre. As a POW he was soon sent to labour on the Death Railway in Thailand.Then, 60 years later, his son Paul retraced his nightmarish steps -- with best-selling travel writer travel Stuart Lloyd -- with some really surprising findings and encounters along the way.Part Military History. Part Travelogue. Pure Human Spirit!Over 30 pages of historical and original new photographs.Voted one of the Top 3 War Books of the Year when it was published by The Australian newspaper.Finalist, Book of the Year, Australian Society of Travel Writers.Why?Because -- through secret diaries written between 1942 and 1945 -- it draws you into the very personal observations of Capt Hugh 'Pilk' Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks, who'd spent 12 years working in pre-war colonial Malaya. He goes from a life of privilege to a life of a prisoner for 3.5 years. And his son spends a night in a Malaysian jail to see what it's like! The Missing Years is full of these side-by-side comparisons of then and now in Changi and the Alexandra Hospital (Singapore), the former battlefields of Batu Pahat and Parit Sulong, Johore, (Malaysia), and Kanchanaburi, the Bridge on the River Kwai, and Hellfire Pass (Thailand).In February 1942, a sniper's bullet brought down Captain Hugh Patrick Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks. Fevered in Singapore's Alexandra Military Hospital as the island fell, he was too weak to evacuate. What followed was three and a half years of hell-and one man's unflinching chronicle of survival against impossible odds.Written in secret on scraps of paper purloined from the Japanese themselves (at pain of execution), Pilkington's diaries became a memoir aboard the repatriation ship HMT Sobieski in September 1945. Raw. Unfiltered. Visceral. These were not memories dimmed by time but accounts seared into the present moment-the stench of suppurating wounds, the delirious night screams, the brutal reality of the Thai-Burma Death Railway.What emerges is far more than a POW chronicle. This is an exploration of empires colliding, of men pushed past breaking point, of the thin line between survival and surrender. Pilkington's superior knowledge of Malaya-where he'd lived as a rubber planter for fifteen years-becomes both blessing and curse as he watches the colonial world he'd known consumed by something he never imagined. In Malaya, February 1942, a sniper's bullet brought down Captain Hugh Patrick Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks. What followed was three and a half years of hell-and one man's unflinching chronicle of survival against impossible odds. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Edité par Catmatdog Jul 2026, 2026
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Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, AllemagneAHA-BUCH GmbH
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "A fascinating, sweeping tale of one extended family's roots and lives in wild places and tumultuous times."Tony Park, best-selling author of Far Horizon.Every family has its stories. Ours just happen to involve empires, 1820 Settlers at the Cape, 1890 Pioneers in Rhodesia. War heroes. Internati…onal sportsmen. A roll call of colourful characters who chased gold, dug diamonds, and brought sugar farming to Africa.That's the 'heroic' version.But the reality is messier and even more interesting.Bad bets and lost fortunes, surviving shipwrecks and land-mines and German grandmothers, suing a Zulu king, a fishing trip hijacked by 29 hippos, being coached by Barry Richards and Greer Stevens, a murdered housemaid, shopping trips with an Uzi, serial boarding school floggings, going to church with Miss World Penny Ray, playing rugby against the All Blacks and British Lions, negotiating with a despotic Zimbabwean president, and more amazingly true stories. So I'm not even the hero of my own life story!'A Monkey's Wedding' tells the true story of my family's seven-generation journey through southern Africa, set against the rise and retreat of empire. What happened to those who emigrated to the UK and Australia? And what happened to those who stayed behind? And why one cousin even returned with a young family from Australia to Zimbabwe.Think of it as a 200-year South Africa and Rhodesia life story, choc-full of true stories of Southern African pioneer history and African frontier history. But 'A Monkey's Wedding' is more than just my colonial Africa personal story . there are probably universal similarities to your family, with the themes of adventure and adaptation, and having the balls to go and find a better life on the other side of the world.If you enjoyed the writing of Peter Godwin and Alexandra Fuller, this memoir could be for you.With 24 pages of rare, some never-published, photos. Plus maps of South Africa and Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe showing areas of activity, and brief history timelines of both countries to help put everything in context. A seven-generation family saga spanning 200 years across southern Africa and the British Empire. Weaves together multi-generational adventures from 1820 Cape Settlers to 1890 Rhodesian pioneers to wartime heroes and modern diaspora overseas. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "A fascinating, sweeping tale of one extended family's roots and lives in wild places and tumultuous times."Tony Park, best-selling author of Far Horizon.Every family has its stories. Ours just happen to involve empires, 1820 Settlers at the Cape, 1890 Pioneers in Rhodesia. War heroes. Internati…onal sportsmen. A roll call of colourful characters who chased gold, dug diamonds, and brought sugar farming to Africa.That's the 'heroic' version.But the reality is messier and even more interesting.Bad bets and lost fortunes, surviving shipwrecks and land-mines and German grandmothers, suing a Zulu king, a fishing trip hijacked by 29 hippos, being coached by Barry Richards and Greer Stevens, a murdered housemaid, shopping trips with an Uzi, serial boarding school floggings, going to church with Miss World Penny Ray, playing rugby against the All Blacks and British Lions, negotiating with a despotic Zimbabwean president, and more amazingly true stories. So I'm not even the hero of my own life story!'A Monkey's Wedding' tells the true story of my family's seven-generation journey through southern Africa, set against the rise and retreat of empire. What happened to those who emigrated to the UK and Australia? And what happened to those who stayed behind? And why one cousin even returned with a young family from Australia to Zimbabwe.Think of it as a 200-year South Africa and Rhodesia life story, choc-full of true stories of Southern African pioneer history and African frontier history. But 'A Monkey's Wedding' is more than just my colonial Africa personal story . there are probably universal similarities to your family, with the themes of adventure and adaptation, and having the balls to go and find a better life on the other side of the world.If you enjoyed the writing of Peter Godwin and Alexandra Fuller, this memoir could be for you.With 24 pages of rare, some never-published, photos. Plus maps of South Africa and Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe showing areas of activity, and brief history timelines of both countries to help put everything in context. A seven-generation family saga spanning 200 years across southern Africa and the British Empire. Weaves together multi-generational adventures from 1820 Cape Settlers to 1890 Rhodesian pioneers to wartime heroes and modern diaspora overseas. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. "A rollicking adventure, written with wit and grace, about a remarkable family that spanned an empire and helped forge a continent. I loved it." Douglas Rogers, author of The Last Resort and Two Weeks in November.Every family has its stories. Ours just happen to involve empires, 1820 Settlers at… the Cape, 1890 Pioneers in Rhodesia. War heroes. International sportsmen. A roll call of colourful characters who chased gold, dug diamonds, and brought sugar farming to Africa. That's the heroic version. But the reality is messier and even more interesting.Bad bets and lost fortunes, surviving shipwrecks and land-mines and German grandmothers, suing a Zulu chief, a fishing trip hijacked by 29 hippos, being coached by Barry Richards and Greer Stevens, a murdered housemaid, shopping trips with an Uzi, serial boarding school floggings, meeting Miss World Penny Ray, playing rugby against the All Blacks and British Lions, negotiating with a despotic Zimbabwean president, and many more amazingly true stories."Africa can still be mined for stories, and A Monkey's Wedding is gold. It is the grit and serendipity, the bravery and the unexpected, that gives depth and fascination to Lloyd's multi-generational tale. Compelling!" Rick Antonson, author of Slumach's Gold and To Timbuktu for a Haircut. Sadly, I'm not the even the hero of my own life story because it turns out my family tree is full of real heroes.'A Monkey's Wedding' tells the true story of my family's seven-generation journey through southern Africa, set against the rise and retreat of empire. What happened to those who emigrated to the UK and Australia? And what happened to those who stayed behind? And why one cousin even returned with a young family from Australia to Zimbabwe. Think of it as a 200-year South Africa and Rhodesia life story, choc-full of true stories of Southern African pioneer history and African frontier history. But 'A Monkey's Wedding' is more than just my colonial Africa personal story . there are probably universal similarities to your family, with the themes of adventure and adaptation, and having the balls to go and find a better life on the other side of the world. If you enjoyed the writing of Peter Godwin and Alexandra Fuller, this memoir could be for you."A fascinating, sweeping tale of one extended family's roots and lives in wild places and tumultuous times."Tony Park, best-selling author of Far Horizon. With 24 pages of rare, some never-published, photos. Plus maps of South Africa and Rhodesia/ Zimbabwe showing areas of activity, and brief history timelines of both countries to help put everything in context. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Edité par Catmatdog, 2026
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A Secret Memoir of Living Hell . Revisited.British officer Capt Hugh Pilkington of the Royal Norfolks enjoyed the full and fun life of a rubber planter in pre-war Malaya. Then war broke out and he found himself fighting in Johor. Shot by a sniper, he was hospitalised in Singapore, only for the h…ospital to be overrun by the Japanese in a horrific massacre. As a POW he was soon sent to labour on the Death Railway in Thailand.Then, 60 years later, his son Paul retraced his nightmarish steps -- with best-selling travel writer travel Stuart Lloyd -- with some really surprising findings and encounters along the way.Part Military History. Part Travelogue. Pure Human Spirit!Over 30 pages of historical and original new photographs.Voted one of the Top 3 War Books of the Year when it was published by The Australian newspaper.Finalist, Book of the Year, Australian Society of Travel Writers.Why?Because -- through secret diaries written between 1942 and 1945 -- it draws you into the very personal observations of Capt Hugh 'Pilk' Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks, who'd spent 12 years working in pre-war colonial Malaya. He goes from a life of privilege to a life of a prisoner for 3.5 years. And his son spends a night in a Malaysian jail to see what it's like! The Missing Years is full of these side-by-side comparisons of then and now in Changi and the Alexandra Hospital (Singapore), the former battlefields of Batu Pahat and Parit Sulong, Johore, (Malaysia), and Kanchanaburi, the Bridge on the River Kwai, and Hellfire Pass (Thailand).In February 1942, a sniper's bullet brought down Captain Hugh Patrick Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks. Fevered in Singapore's Alexandra Military Hospital as the island fell, he was too weak to evacuate. What followed was three and a half years of hell-and one man's unflinching chronicle of survival against impossible odds.Written in secret on scraps of paper purloined from the Japanese themselves (at pain of execution), Pilkington's diaries became a memoir aboard the repatriation ship HMT Sobieski in September 1945. Raw. Unfiltered. Visceral. These were not memories dimmed by time but accounts seared into the present moment-the stench of suppurating wounds, the delirious night screams, the brutal reality of the Thai-Burma Death Railway.What emerges is far more than a POW chronicle. This is an exploration of empires colliding, of men pushed past breaking point, of the thin line between survival and surrender. Pilkington's superior knowledge of Malaya-where he'd lived as a rubber planter for fifteen years-becomes both blessing and curse as he watches the colonial world he'd known consumed by something he never imagined. In Malaya, February 1942, a sniper's bullet brought down Captain Hugh Patrick Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks. What followed was three and a half years of hell-and one man's unflinching chronicle of survival against impossible odds. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Edité par Catmatdog, 2026
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A Secret Memoir of Living Hell . Revisited.British officer Capt Hugh Pilkington of the Royal Norfolks enjoyed the full and fun life of a rubber planter in pre-war Malaya. Then war broke out and he found himself fighting in Johor. Shot by a sniper, he was hospitalised in Singapore, only for the h…ospital to be overrun by the Japanese in a horrific massacre. As a POW he was soon sent to labour on the Death Railway in Thailand.Then, 60 years later, his son Paul retraced his nightmarish steps -- with best-selling travel writer travel Stuart Lloyd -- with some really surprising findings and encounters along the way.Part Military History. Part Travelogue. Pure Human Spirit!Over 30 pages of historical and original new photographs.Voted one of the Top 3 War Books of the Year when it was published by The Australian newspaper.Finalist, Book of the Year, Australian Society of Travel Writers.Why?Because -- through secret diaries written between 1942 and 1945 -- it draws you into the very personal observations of Capt Hugh 'Pilk' Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks, who'd spent 12 years working in pre-war colonial Malaya. He goes from a life of privilege to a life of a prisoner for 3.5 years. And his son spends a night in a Malaysian jail to see what it's like! The Missing Years is full of these side-by-side comparisons of then and now in Changi and the Alexandra Hospital (Singapore), the former battlefields of Batu Pahat and Parit Sulong, Johore, (Malaysia), and Kanchanaburi, the Bridge on the River Kwai, and Hellfire Pass (Thailand).In February 1942, a sniper's bullet brought down Captain Hugh Patrick Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks. Fevered in Singapore's Alexandra Military Hospital as the island fell, he was too weak to evacuate. What followed was three and a half years of hell-and one man's unflinching chronicle of survival against impossible odds.Written in secret on scraps of paper purloined from the Japanese themselves (at pain of execution), Pilkington's diaries became a memoir aboard the repatriation ship HMT Sobieski in September 1945. Raw. Unfiltered. Visceral. These were not memories dimmed by time but accounts seared into the present moment-the stench of suppurating wounds, the delirious night screams, the brutal reality of the Thai-Burma Death Railway.What emerges is far more than a POW chronicle. This is an exploration of empires colliding, of men pushed past breaking point, of the thin line between survival and surrender. Pilkington's superior knowledge of Malaya-where he'd lived as a rubber planter for fifteen years-becomes both blessing and curse as he watches the colonial world he'd known consumed by something he never imagined. In Malaya, February 1942, a sniper's bullet brought down Captain Hugh Patrick Pilkington of the 6th Royal Norfolks. What followed was three and a half years of hell-and one man's unflinching chronicle of survival against impossible odds. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
