Gael Harrison

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The Moon in the Banyan Tree (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

I have walked through these streets at night, when all is silent and only the moonlight casts shadows over the clean and deserted pavements. The architecture retakes centre stage, and the classic French style of the building designs once again becomes apparent. As you walk, your eyes are drawn to the beautiful carved doorways and ornate shutters. Above, the ghostly modern additions to the already complicated rooftops mingle with the silhouettes of mature trees and vibrant bougainvillaea that have taken on the black hues of midnight. It could all be a pen and ink sketch for, here in the heart of the city by moonlight, the streets take on a beauty they do not possess in the afternoon sun. Gael Harrison's life has almost come full circle, from her birth and schooling as a British rubber planter's daughter in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to her newly found life in Vietnam. In 2001 Volunteer Services Overseas assigned Gael to a Save the Children Fund project in the remote Vietnamese highlands where only ethnic dialects were spoken. The daunting task of existing and working in these areas, in spite of speaking neither Vietnamese nor the local dialects, reveals the qualities that allow Gael to tell her story of the seldom-seen world of the volunteer in a difficult and alien environment through very human eyes. Gael is now remarried and continues to live and work in Hanoi.

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Autor

Gael Harrison was born in Malaysia and attended a boarding school on Penang Hill for three years before going home to Scotland where she attended boarding school and qualified as a teacher. She also gained a Fine Arts degree at the Open University.With her husband and three children, she spent ten years in Singapore and Kota Kinabalu in North Borneo, where she taught in an international school as well as running her own multinational kindergarten.In the 1980s she returned to Scotland where she and her family lived in a village overlooking the Isle of Skye. In 2001 she took up the challenge of VSO and spent a year in the Vietnamese mountains close to the Chinese border, and three further years working in the UN International School in Hanoi.She has worked in Ukraine and Qatar and, always keen to learn about different peoples and cultures, has travelled extensively overseas. Her books reflect her particular love of Scotland and Malaysia, the two countries that have most strongly influenced her. Gael now lives with her husband in North Queensferry, Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: G2 Rights
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909040656
• Artikelnr.: 41865654