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A young German sailor comes to Australia in 1928, spending two years in Australia and New Zealand working on farms and becoming an elephant handler in Wirth's Circus. He returns to Germany, but leaves again in 1936 for America. He returns to Australia as a seaman, but deserts ship in Adelaide. Travelling up to Sydney, he meets a lady, Glenn Martin's father's cousin, and they marry after a lightning romance, following which he gets an acting role in the film "Forty Thousand Horsemen". When the Second World War starts, he is arrested and put into an internment camp in Victoria. She joins him. At…mehr

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A young German sailor comes to Australia in 1928, spending two years in Australia and New Zealand working on farms and becoming an elephant handler in Wirth's Circus. He returns to Germany, but leaves again in 1936 for America. He returns to Australia as a seaman, but deserts ship in Adelaide. Travelling up to Sydney, he meets a lady, Glenn Martin's father's cousin, and they marry after a lightning romance, following which he gets an acting role in the film "Forty Thousand Horsemen". When the Second World War starts, he is arrested and put into an internment camp in Victoria. She joins him. At this point she discovers that back in Germany, he was a Baron with lands. They spend the war in the camp. Despite the fact that people now know he is a Baron, he returns to being a seaman. With three children, they settle in Sydney.
Autorenporträt
Glenn Martin is the author of over 25 books, on ethics and values, reflections on experience, family history, and collections of poetry. Some of his books are "A Foundation for Living Ethically", "Human Values and Ethics in the Workplace", "Future: The Spiritual Story of Humanity", "They Went to Australia", "No Gold in Melbourne", "The Big Story Falls Apart", "Long Time Approaching: An Incomplete Memoir", "Travel with a Pen", "All the Rivers Come Together: Tracing Family", "The Way Is Open (poems)". His website is www.glennmartin.com.au