The Wind of Morning

Boustead, Colonel Sir Hugh

ISBN 10: 0701113146 / ISBN 13: 9780701113148

Published by Chatto & Windus, 1971

About this Item

Hardback. Dustjacket. Both in Very Good condition. Orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. 240 Pages. Not inscribed. Marginal pencil notes to one or two pages. Illustrated. Pictorial Dustjacket slightly rubbed and price clipped, now in protective clear covering. Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead began his career inauspiciously by deserting as a midshipman from the Royal Navy in 1915 in order to see service with the South African Scottish in France, where he fought as a private solidier and junior officer from the Somme to the Armistice. he spent a year in the steppes with Denikin's White Army, and another four years' service as an officer in his regiment. the Gordon Highlanders, in Turkey and the Mediterranean, later he found himself in the Sudan commanding the Camel Corps. Some of his most eventful experiences occurred in the Second World War in the campaign to restore the Emperor of Ethiopia to his throne. This is much more than a record of an extraordinary military career. however, Sir Hugh Boustead has spent the greater part of his life in the service to underdeveloped countries. Establishing tribal peace, improving local agriculture, building schools and medical centres, training young Sudanese and Arab administrators - these were his tasks delightfully recounted, in the Western Sudan, the Hadhramaut and Muscat and Oman in Southern Arabia and in Abu Dhabi. At odd intervals in his life he represented Britain in the Olympics, explored the Western Desert with Bagnold and undertook some redoubtable climbs in the Alps and the Himalayas, culminating in the 1953 Everest expedition. His descriptions of people and places and events are sharply observed and convey vividly and immediately to the reader the zest with which he has lived every moment of his remarkable life.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wind of Morning
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701113146
• ISBN 13: 9780701113148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

"Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead began his career inauspiciously by deserting as a mid-shipman from the Royal Navy in 1915 in order to see service with the South African Scottish in France, where he fought as a private soldier and junior officer from the Somme to the Armistice. But this was only the beginning of an extraordinary life. A life of adventure and of great service to underdeveloped countries. During his long life he met many of the famous people of his time. From schooling under George Mallory of Everest fame to Brigadier Ralph Bagnold and the Long Range Desert Group and Eric Shipton of Mt. Everest. Boustead worked with Major General Orde Wingate and Emperor Haile Selassie during the Ethiopian campaigns of World War II." At odd intervals in his life he represented Britain in the Olympics, explored the Libyan desert, assaulted Everest with the Shipton expedition, fought with Denikin against the Red Army on the Russian steppes, and won the Army Lightweight boxing championship.