Ghost Stories And Other Island Tales: A colonial officer in the Gilbert Islands

by MR I E Butler

In the 1950s, Ian Butler abandoned a short-lived career in the chemical industry to serve as a colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, against the advice of his father who told him the British Empire was "going down the drain". This memoir is a collection of evocative and wittily told stories that provide an insider's view of the life of a colonial administrator in one of Her Majesty's most far flung colonies, and recall a period in British...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1500505927
• ISBN13: 9781500505929
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"