Open Return by Catherine Bradfield

"If there's one thing I can't abide, it's travelling in a group. Travelling by yourself opens opportunities for experiences and relationships that don't exist when you have a travelling companion."

Catherine Bradfield was born in 1910, en route to England from South Africa. She was brought up in England, and then travelled and worked abroad for some years. Eventually she settled in Canberra (Australia's national capital), where she now resides.

In the late 1930's she worked for a Jewish family in Dresden and Kristallnacht shattered their lives. After a period as a smuggler for the underground network assisting Jews preparing to leave Nazi Germany, she returned to England, joined the WAAF and was posted to India. The story of these experiences and her subsequent travels from Singapore to Canberra, Switzerland to Kashmir was told in her first book, One-Way Ticket (published in 1993).

In the mid-1960's Catherine travelled through Japan, Korea, India, Israel, Wales, England, Switzerland, Finland, Russia and Vanuatu, returning to her adopted home town, Canberra.

Open Return is the story of these travels and her return to life in Canberra. It is a personal observation of both unique and national characteristics and the common threads that unite people of all nations.

Genres: Nonfiction - Travel - Memoir
Condition: Good
Published: 2002
Pages: 247
ISBN: 1863355162
Weight: 295g