Fielding , with illustrated cover, circa 1960-1975. 8 „ Aeolus displayed : a book of the winds? (published in an extended German translation as „Das Buch der Winde? by Greno, 1988, and subsequently in English as „ Aeolus displayed : a book of the winds? by Typographeum, 1991). Annotated typescript and photocopies, with, 11/3/2012 · Xan Fielding was born at Ootacamund, India, where his father, Alexander James Lumsden Wallace, served in the Indian Army, as a major in the 52nd Sikhs (Frontier Force). Fielding ‘s mother Mary Gertrude (née Feilmann) died soon after his birth, on 13 December 1918, and he was largely brought up in Nice , France, by his maternal grandparents who adopted the name Fielding .
Alexander Wallace ‘ Xan’ Fielding was a British writer and translator, notable for his English translations of La Planète des singes (Monkey Planet / Planet of the Apes) and Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï (The Bridge on the River Kwai), both by French novelist Pierre Boulle. Born at Ootacamund…
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Fielding teamed up with Patrick Leigh Fermor, and built an intelligence gathering network which provided detailed information on the movement of Axis troops, shipping, and air transport.[5] He also arranged for the transportation to Egypt of hundreds of Allied soldiers left behind after the evacuation, and now being hidden by the Cretans.[6], This book of mine does not claim to be a serious sociological work it is simply the account of a more or less carefree year spent among people who seem to fit so perfectly into their startling surroundings that at times I imagined it was not the landscape that conditioned their lives but their personalities that had conditioned the landscape.— Xan Fielding . Xan Fielding (1918–1991) was a British writer and.
5/17/2019 · Xan Fielding : biography. 26 November 1918 – 19 August 1991. Major Xan Fielding DSO (26 November 1918 – 19 August 1991) was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as an Special Operations Executive agent in Crete, France and the Far East during World War II.
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