
The Way We Were
Volume 3
Peter Burgess(Author)
Partridge Publishing Singapore
Published on 8. September 2020
Book
Hardback
132 pages
978-1-5437-6034-7 (ISBN)
Description
About Peter Henry Burgess
Peter Burgess was born in England in 1945. He was educated at schools and university there. He studied English at university and earned an Honours degree in English and Philosophy. He went into teaching in English government schools shortly after graduating from university. He came to Singapore in 1979 to work on a three-year contract for the Ministry of education, teaching in various Junior Colleges. In Junior Colleges he taught General Paper and English Literature to students ranging in age from 17 to 19. He married in Singapore and ended up staying almost forty years, retiring from government service in 2000. Since then he has been in the private education sector. He has a wide experience of teaching English in Singapore. He has also taught in China and Vietnam. He is the author of several books on English grammar, English Literature and Shakespeare. His second language is French. He is married with two grown sons. His hobbies are watching movies, fishing and reading and writing.
More details
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
307 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5437-6034-7 (9781543760347)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
The author is an ex-high school teacher who also taught for 20 years in Queensland Correctional Centres.He has strong interest in Australia's military and social history. Genealogy is also a favourite and time-consuming pastime.As a grandson of an 'original' 9th Battalion Anzac who landed in the first wave, Peter has maintained a life-long interest in the Gallipoli Campaign. Researching the lives of the first ashore Anzacs has been an enjoyable and engrossing passion for many years.