Launching Out from Scotland
Journeys, Challenges and Encounters
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Stepping into the unknown was liberating like a journey to a foreign land. Nothing is prescribed, or falls into categories, or is certain. The uncertain takes over, as we venture out, and becomes a reality with a fresh infusion of life and energy.
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About the Book
As a migrant to Australia from North East Scotland, Tom Mann portrays, in Launching Out from Scotland, a unique set of challenges and encounters in Australia and other countries, which include Algeria, the Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, and China. The issues Tom confronts concern the cruelty and effects of war, the plight of refugees, homeless children, the growing of poppies for opium, agricultural and village development, land degradation, mental health, suicide, and miscarriages of justice. With a light-hearted approach, Tom makes each situation real to the reader with anecdotes relating to the challenges and personal encounters. Life, Tom has found, is an adventure, of learning, being open, sharing, and finding oneself in an ongoing journey that never ceases. Launching Out from Scotland shares that passion with the reader. It is an absorbing and inspirational read.
About the Author
After graduating in science from Aberdeen University, Tom Mann migrated to Australia and worked as a lecturer and consultant in agriculture. He also taught English as a second language. Tom lives in Gawler, South Australia, with his wife, Elizabeth. He writes nonfiction and hikes in the Barossa and Adelaide Hills.