A Late BeginnerPriscilla Napier grew up in Egypt during the last golden years of the Edwardian Age - a time when, for her parents' generation, it seemed the sun would never set upon 'the regimental band playing selections from HMS Pinafore under the banyan tree'. A Late Beginner recalls that childhood and those last fleeting years of the British Protectorate. |
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| Título | A Late Beginner |
| Autor | Priscilla Hayter Napier |
| Editor | Walker, 1966 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 31 Ago. 2007 |
| Largo | 260 páginas |
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