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Author’s Preface 9
Acknowledgements 13
1. Landscape of the Heart 19
   
2. A Bird in the House 47
   
3. The Magic of Writing 57
   
4. Hitler in Manitoba: The High School Years 71
   
5. College Years: 1944-1947 101
   
6. Journalism: 1947-1949 135
   
7. New Territory: England 1949-1950; East Africa 1950-1952 151
   
8. Heart of a Stranger: The Gold Coast (Ghana) 1952-1956 191
   
9. Stolen Time: Vancouver 1957-1962 227
   
10. Uncertain Alchemy: England 1962-1964 295
   
Appendix – Introduction - 3 Short Stories 313
   
“Mrs. Cathcart, In and Out of Purdah” 315
“ A Fable – For the Whaling Fleets” 329
“ A Queen in Thebes” 333
   
Permissions, Notes, Selected Bibliography 348-400
   
Index 401