The Last Train From Djibouti: Africa Beckons Me, But America is My Home
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“The Last Train from Djibouti is an odyssey you will not forget.” —Larry Bechtel, author of The Tinsmith’s Apprentice and sculptor
Otis Lee begins this story in the most innocuous of locations: a train from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Penn Station in New Y
Otis L. Lee Jr.
Otis L. Lee Jr. is a retired attorney, formerly a member of both the Pennsylvania and Virginia Bar. He formerly served on the faculties of several Midwestern and East Coast universities and as a director, coordinator, and contributing author to the Howard University School of Business 1980 project to revise and edit the US Department of Commerce manual. Lee is also the author of the memoir From South Boston to Cambridge: The Making of One Philadelphia Lawyer and The Last Train from Djibouti: Africa Beckons Me, But America Is My Home. Lee's career has included assignments with the Harris Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago, Illinois, as a trust-new-business solicitor, with the US Chamber of Commerce as a panel executive on product liability, and with the New York Life Insurance Company as an advanced underwriting consultant for the Mid-Atlantic region.
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