still None The Wiser Paperback -

Still None The Wiser Is The Final Instalment Of AMemoir Subtitled AMidcentury Passage, Part Travel, Part Biographical Memoir, Part HistoryIt Is As Much ASocial And Political Record Of The Closing Period Of Colonial West Africa As An Account Of The Quirks And Foibles Of The British and Other Expatriates At The End Of EmpireIn The Author Aged , Thwarted In Love In London, Joined An Often Eccentric Group Of Expatriates Who Ran The Oldest Colonial Bank In West AfricaIn Ghana And In Nigeria He Experienced The Passing Of An EraEric Robson The Tv Presenter Wrote Of None The Wiser And Its Sequel .Set Against An Historical Background Of Britain At War And Mislaying An Empire he Gives Us AFascinating Glimpse Of ALost WorldThis Final Part Of That Memoir Ends As Harold Macmillans Winds Of Change Blow The White Man Out Of AfricaThe Setting Is ALonggone Africa Which At Its Passing Was Known To FewIn Earlier Centuries Of European Contact The West African Coast Became The White Mans Grave, When The Author Arrived It Had Become The White Mans HeadacheAs The Author Rightly Says, This Book Is Not For The Fainthearted Or The Nervously DisposedIt Is Probably Unsuitable For Vegetarians And Political Correctness Remained An Unknown Concept When Many Of The Incidents He Describes OccurredIt Took Many Years In The Writing And Perusing Of Old Notes And Diaries, Names Had To Be Changed Not So Much To Protect The Innocent who As Always Are Few In Number As Much As To Avoid Offending The Survivors Among That Fast Dwindling Band Of Those Who Were Once Known As Old CoastersIt Perhaps Describes AMore Honest World Than We Live In Today'