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    Visions Through Verse: Thoughts and Emotions of a Voyager Through Life
    Visions Through Verse: Thoughts and Emotions of a Voyager Through Life
    Visions Through Verse: Thoughts and Emotions of a Voyager Through Life
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    Visions Through Verse: Thoughts and Emotions of a Voyager Through Life

    By Walter Jacob

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    This collection of poems reflects the thoughts and musings of one who has experienced many diverse experiences on his own and on behalf of others. Some are written with an eye to teaching English to young people as they include several of the poetic techniques that they have to learn at school. Everyone is sure to find something to which they can relate personally.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateDec 30, 2016
    ISBN9781524596958
    Visions Through Verse: Thoughts and Emotions of a Voyager Through Life
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    Walter Jacob

    Walter Lyall Jacob was born in Dundee, Scotland, on Saint Patrick’s Day, 1935. After studying at the High School of Dundee and Saint Andrews University, he became a solicitor, which was just the start of a very varied career, first as lawyer, then as educator, both in the United Kingdom and, for a time, in the Bahamas. Although initially he taught law to adults, he went on to tutor children in English and maths, which he still does, at the advanced age of eighty-two. It was while teaching English poetry that Walter was hit by the muse, which led him to reduce a variety of thoughts and opinions to verse—some serious, some humorous. This little booklet contains a few of the many that he has written; the others fill several wastepaper baskets!

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