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Christine Osborne. Travels With My Hat: A Lifetime on the Road
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ticket to Addis Ababa
Chapter 2: Red Sea Adventure
Chapter 3: A Member of the Royal Press Corps
Chapter 4: Middle East Nightmare
Chapter 5: No Mocha in Mocha
Chapter 6: May you Never be Tired
Chapter 7: The Marabout from Taroudant
Chapter 8: Correspondence with Mum. Letter from PERSEPOLIS. 26 October 1971. Dear Mum. I’ve had the most interesting day visiting the ancient Persian city of Persepolis. I love Iran, such an exotic country with courteous people and a delicious cuisine. In fact this letter is all about food! Am travelling with Vida Fatemi, an expert guide as she is a history graduate from Shiraz University. Of course Persepolis is in ruins, but vivid bas-reliefs indicate the pageantry of past events. Vida pointed out the famous Immortals (personal bodyguards of the Achaemenian kings) whose numbers never fell below 10,000 men. Other carvings showed the Egyptians leading a bull, the Assyrians cups, hides and a Bactrian camel, all gifts from the Persian dominions (unsure what these were, will have to check)
Love Chris. Letter from BAHRAIN. 21 December1976. Dearest Mum
Lots of love Chris. Letter from KHARTOUM. 20 September 1980. Dear Mum
Letter from DUBAI. 25 July 1981. Dear Mum
Chris xxxxxxxxxxx. Letter from KARACHI AIRPORT. 26 November 1981. Dearest Mum
Love Chris
Letter from BANGLADESH. 12 June 1987. Dear Mum
Chris xxx. Letter from SINAI. 24 March 1990. My dear Mum
Love Chris. Letter from ZAMBIA. 3 June 1994. My dear Mum
Love Chris. Postcard from GALILEE. 20 March 1984. Dear Mum
Lots of love Christine
Postcard from UZBEKISTAN. 16 November 1993. Dear Mum
C x
Postcard from BANJUL. 25 January 1994. Dear Mum
Love Chris. Postcard from ALGIERS. 17 October 1999. Dear Mum
Love Chris
Letter from MUM. 12 September 1977. Dearest Chris
Mum x
Letter from MUM. 10 January 1979. Dear Chris
Mum xx. Letter from MUM. 10 September 1980. Dear Chris
Love Mum and Mickie xxx
Letter from MUM. 19 February 1983. Dear Chris
Mum xxoxx
Letter from MUM. 2 May 1985. Dear Chris
Love Mum xx
Letter from MUM. 16 June 1993. My dear Chris
Mum xx
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Books by the Author
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It was at an American Independence Day party in 1976 that I first met the author and significantly, the word independence, is one of the major clues to the nature of this expatriate Australian.
Fiercely independent and single-minded, she has photographed and written books about countries as diverse as Tahiti and Oman. I occasionally met up with her and witnessed the mix of guts and perseverance, interspersed with the odd tear of frustration, and a hint of the memsahib that seemed to overcome all obstacles. Once, on point of arrest for some minor infringement over photography, with an authoritarian Pakistani army officer, she suggested they have tea first which they both drank, exchanged pleasantries, and Osborne was allowed to go on her way.
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At FPP headquarters in Addis Ababa, I learnt that Arba Minch lay on a ridge of the Rift Valley escarpment at a height of 2,000 metres (6,562 feet). Peasant-farmers, the people cultivated coffee and maize, but life had deteriorated under the new Marxist government and as in other parts of Ethiopia, there was increasing dissent.
A message was dispatched to Lloyd Fineberg, the regional director of FPP in Arba Minch, telling him to expect me on the morning flight. So barely twenty-four hours out of the bone-dry Ogaden, I was flying south, to the wettest part of Ethiopia, the only foreigner on a converted military transport aircraft whose passengers included two goats sliding up and down on the metal floor between our uncomfortable webbing seats.
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