Will Randall is a disaffected schoolteacher when he is hired to travel to the Solomon Islands to figure out a way for the people in a small village can earn a living. Deciding that raising chickens is the most promising project, Randall helps the villagers embark on it, eventually opening a chicken shack called Chicken Willy's. In the course of ...
'Splintering away from the strangely geometric frozen wall to my right, a chunk of ice fell across the mountain path. Somehow, despite the increasing precariousness of my position, I felt annoyed by the way it had spilled out, spoiling the polished neatness of the piste. Puffs of snow spray, diamond dust in the dying of the day, scorched my cheeks ...
Will Randall is "the teacher who travels" and as in "Solomon Time", this is a heart-warming account of how one man's enthusiasm and old-fashioned desire to do good have helped to preserve a community.
Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on a play to help save their school. In Botswana he was taken up by a headmaster to teach a class of six year olds at The River of Life school. They are ...
House-sitting in Boston one winter, Will Randall picks up with one of his more disreputable travel buddies, Jack J. Makepeace, and life gets a great deal more exciting. Makepeace introduces Randall to his current employers, Chestnut Investigations, and soon Will finds himself appointed apprentice Private Investigator. He tails mongrels and errant ...
Will Randall travels with a purpose, as well as an outrageous sense of fortune. In INDIAN SUMMER he found himself, by chance, having the extraordinary experience of helping slum schoolchildren put on a play to help save their school. In Botswana he was taken up by a headmaster to teach a class of six year olds at The River of Life school. They are ...
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