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Paul Adamson
Paul Adamson was born in Cheshire in 1932, the youngest child of a prospering English middle-class family. Until September 1939 he had a conventional upbringing when after moving t...view morePaul Adamson was born in Cheshire in 1932, the youngest child of a prospering English middle-class family. Until September 1939 he had a conventional upbringing when after moving to London the outbreak of war blew the family apart as effectively as one of Hitlers bombs. Evacuation, a series of sometimes traumatic boarding schools, growing up during the wartime American occupation, rationing, air-raids, D-Day and final victory. All this and more were recalled in the first volume of his two part memoir None the Wiser (first published in 2004, Hayloft Publishing Ltd. UK) which culminated in 1952 on the authors return to England following two years National Service with the RAF in the Far East during the Malayan Emergency.
His second volume Still None the Wiser takes up the story when in 1954 as a young man of 22 he went off to seek his (modest) fortune with a colonial bank on the Gold Coast in West Africa. He remained in Africa for most of the next thirteen years. He lived in both the major cities of Accra and Lagos and also in remote up-country stations until finally leaving Nigeria in early 1967 on the outbreak of the Biafran War: by then married and with two small children. In 1968 after briefly emigrating to Canada the author returned to Britain. From 1969 until the present time he has lived happily with his wife in the English Lake District where for 22 years until he retired he worked for The Outward Bound Trust, a charitable organisation dedicated to bump-starting the minds and bodies of young people throughout the world.view less