Foreword by The Rt. Hon. The Lord Luce KG GCVO; Preface; At the Crossroads; A Taste of Aden; Mukalla; Losing the Plot; A New Broom; Desert Rumbles; Loaves & Fishes; Land & Labour; Stuck in the Secretariat; Insecure in Aden; Port, Police & Politics; Lahej Mon Amour; Roads to Radfan; "POL Habilain"; Arabian Exit; Envoi; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index.
Born in 1934, John Harding joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1959, serving in South Arabia from 1960 to 1965 as an assistant adviser in the Eastern Aden Protectorate, an administrator in Aden, and a political officer in Lahej and Radfan. After Arabia, he emigrated to Australia, returning to Britain to resume a full-time legal career with a City of London law firm. Formerly a Vice President of the Alpine Club, he has written and lectured extensively about mountain adventure. Married, with three daughters and numerous grandchildren, he and his wife Georgina now live on the Gower Peninsula in Wales.
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