Ian Campbell

A Dundee born lad in the fifties married for over 50 years to Liz, a Dundee lass. Travel was always the main driver for income for the author and so we left Dundee in 1981 for South Africa after many good years of the oil boom and offshore working away from home. South Africa was meant to keep the author at home with the family but soon he was away again to the diamond mines of Namibia, the power stations of Botswana, business in Kenya, Mauritius and all over the sub-Sahara Africa. Ultimately, Southern Africa was unable to contain Ian and the next move was the Middle East. Based in Dubai in 1993 the Middle East became the marketplace for business as a Director of major oil and gas related inspectorates.

Returning to Dundee with the family in the mid 1990s, further regular travel and domicile in Greece, Malaysia and Australia all for work reasons kept the author busy - all the time with a thirst for life experience throughout the globe. Resettling in the Dundee area, Ian took the post of Managing Director for a large Scottish heavy engineering company until leaving after seven years to carry out consultancy roles at home and internationally.

Retirement was too easy and cruising became the main activity for Ian and Liz. In between trips the search for authentic information on family history was becoming a 'must do' and soon hoards of downloads and printouts were accumulated that told the story of the author's ancestors in Dundee. The information was there, it was scrutinised and it was exciting. It had to be written into the true story of "The Crescent". In truth, it almost had the power to write itself and so, on Halloween 2020, the first words of the book were committed to writing. Through the dark, cold and scary Covid winter the story took shape and by the middle of January 2021 the first draft was finished. The rest as they say is history, and is still being made.