Peter F Barry

For Pete's Sake

Part I - 1939 to 1970, Entertaining Tales of Providence

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Produktbeschreibung

In this extraordinary memoir, Peter Barry recounts a life full of misdeeds and misadventures, tough times and unexpected pitfalls, shot through with many magical moments of providence, coincidence, absurdity and sheer good fortune. From a childhood on a hilltop farm - as the landscape of rural Northern England changed forever - to building the legendary Snowy Dam in Australia, from playing gigs in Lancashire village halls to recording albums in Australia and entertaining troops in the Vietnam War, Peter Barry's long and colourful life has bumped up against history, time after time, in a truly remarkable way. This is the first volume of a story - from 1939 to 1970 - in which the ever-resourceful, ever-hopeful Peter observes the end of an era in England and the start of a new one in Australia, falls in love with the East and, again and again, finds himself in the right spot at just the right time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781543780567
• ISBN-10: 1543780563
• Artikelnr.: 69468122

Autorenporträt

PETER F BARRY Born in 1939, Peter grew up on a family farm in the Lancashire Pennine hill country. A mischievous boy and a friend to all, Peter loved playing the bugle, riding horses, and playing cricket, tennis and rugby - delighting in all things outside of the classroom at school, not inside. Academically poor, he left school without any qualifications. Years later, he was diagnosed with severe dyslexia, which explained why he had failed all his exams. But even for a dairyman like him, there's no point crying over spilt milk. Working on his parents' dairy farm, he taught himself how to yodel, taking advantage of the acoustic echo in the dairy. Little did Peter Barry know how this would change the course of his life. After emigrating to Australia - where he participated in the construction of the historic Snowy Dam - Peter established a promising career as a singer and recording artist, performing for troops in Vietnam as well as for audiences in the nightclubs of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao. Somehow, he also found the time to open a restaurant, establish a thriving property business and start a family, all against the backdrop of the fast-changing Far East.