Books

[tiger_one]

 

[The Chad]

My first 11 working years were spent working in a public library.

To this day I regret how eager I was to get out of that world & into something else for 'more money'.

I was a haphazard reader as a kid until I found Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Then my world changed.

 

[Suzie-Q]

My first 11 working years were spent working in a public library.

To this day I regret how eager I was to get out of that world & into something else for 'more money'.

I was a haphazard reader as a kid until I found Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Then my world changed.

I'm a primary school librarian - but only teacher trained. I LOVE it! I am seriously considering doing training to get into a public libraryinstead, though. Education is becoming so boring and data driven, going USAian led by beurocrats, not educators, when IMO we should be following the Nordic style. Anyway, I would love to be a proper librarian in a public library.

 

[tiger_one]

 

[tiger_one]

 

[pawsandclaws1]

I'm a primary school librarian - but only teacher trained. I LOVE it! I am seriously considering doing training to get into a public libraryinstead, though. Education is becoming so boring and data driven, going USAian led by beurocrats, not educators, when IMO we should be following the Nordic style. Anyway, I would love to be a proper librarian in a public library.

The library at Trinity College in Dublin is one of the most magnificent collections I have ever seen. I collect antique books but keep running out of library cabinets in which to store them.😁

 

[pawsandclaws1]

The wonder of books. This is a part Australia's military history -

Three photos of the 1907 second edition (suppressed) of "Scapegoats of the Empire" by George Witton. I purchased this book from Canada and it is extremely rare. Previously it was owned by an individual from the Government Deeds Office in Pretoria. The first edition was destroyed by the Aust Govt due to perceived criticism of Lord Kitchener. If you check ABE books and other book search engines, so little is known about the book that some sellers refer to the 1982 reprint as the first edition.

Witton was a permanent soldier and the only survivor of the trio tried by the British during the Boer War. Morant and Hancock were executed shortly after. Witton spent a number of years in a British gaol following the trial and naturally was bitter about their treatment.

During WW1, then Prime Minister Andrew Fisher made the comment about fighting to the last man and last shilling for the mother country. Witton is reported to have said "I will be that last man".

This is the first paragraph written on the front-end piece (page photographed) -

"I cannot accept the author's account of the BVC (Bushveld Carabineers) as complete and wholly accurate according to my knowledge of the incident he narrates. I agree that the treatment of Morant, Hancock, 'Picton' and himself after arrest and before sentence was abominable.