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Excerpt from Two Years in Three Continents: Experiences, Impressions and Observations of Two Americans Abroad And so they had it all day long. If he had been a truly born American, I should have been quite ashamed of his bombastic eulogies of our great resources, industrial enter prises, wealth and power. I know not what may be true of Ireland the other eleven months of the year, but in May it was the most beautiful spot I ever visited. The almost daily tears of the ocean keep all vegetation rank and so vividly green that no one can help exclaim There's nothing like this in all America. I confess I had to greatly revise my previous impression of that country. There's very little plain; rolling to mountainous country prevails. By far the greater part of Ireland is very productive, and to look at from the top of a stage coach is more beautiful than the better parts of Iowa and Illinois. God never spread out for the eye of man a more lovely panorama of landscape, or environed him for his home with such exquisite Splashes of nature. From some height your eye reaches at once 'miles of Sloping hillsides, distant valleys, far off mountains and hiding glens, a peaceful lake with wooded shores and some times a splashing, rapid little river made up of a hundred Spring brooks that go laughing along by every roadside; and what greatly adds to the picture, all the available country lies in one great checkerboard as distinctly as a painting on the wall. The fields range in Size from one to four or five acres, either enclosed by stone wall entirely hidden by ivy or on top of which grows the furze with a brilliant yellow flower; or sometimes the fence is a haw thorne hedge, and that in the latter part of May is covered with white bloom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Three Continents is a tale of the clash between the easternized West and the westernized East. Twins Harriet and Michael–spoiled, quixotic, and extremely wealthy–have eschewed the vapid world of cocktail parties and adulteries that seems to be their inheritance. In constantly searching to complete themselves, they become the perfect fodder for the charismatic Rawul of Dhoka and his sinister Sixth World Movement.

HERO ON THREE CONTINENTS is a chronicle of a century with the protagonist Henry Brown participating in events both cataclysmic and personal, and interfacing with characters both famous and imaginary. From the jazz age of the 1920s to the war-torn 1940s, to the international crises of oil and terrorism in the 70s, this novel makes history intimate, the work of any epic. The world needs a hero, and Henry Brown is such a man. Maitland-Lewis demonstrates the importance of uncompromising research as well as the art of presenting material in a fast-flowing, enjoyable, cant put it down style.

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The author depicts life in Bosnia (first as part of Yugoslavia then as part of the independent state/of Croatia), service in the Croatian Navy, training on the Sailing Ship Horst Wessel (now in the U.S. renamed Eagle), life in Titos Yugoslavia and, in 1949, escape to Italy across the Adriatic Sea. Year in Italy, ending with emigration to Australia. After 8 years there, arrival in Berkeley, CA to pursue graduate studies in nuclear engineering, marriage to Barbara (from Kansas) and start of a family. Follows work for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh, PA, then in Maryland for the US Atomic Energy Commission. Includes description of many local and overseas trips.