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The Gambler: An Autobiography Volume 2, 1920-1939
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221 pages
Published
January 28th 1973
by Collins Publishers
(first published 1973)
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A great autobiography to read with fantastic experiences of nature and animals. Stuart Cloete had an amazing life with definite chapters closed and new, totally new life in a next. What amazes me though is that for a man who saw such beauty in animal and man yet denying the true God for a god of one's own making. I find it very strange.
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Stuart Cloete was born in France in 1897 to a Scottish mother and South African father. (His ancestors had come from Holland with Jan Van Riebeck to establish a settlement for the Dutch East India Company).
He remembered his early years in Victorian Paris with sweet nostalgia, but the ideal was shattered when he began his schooling in France and England. He never excelled academically and - in his ...more
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He remembered his early years in Victorian Paris with sweet nostalgia, but the ideal was shattered when he began his schooling in France and England. He never excelled academically and - in his ...more
