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A Boy on the Last Boat: A Journey Around the World
Ben Lochtenberg
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Description for A Boy on the Last Boat: A Journey Around the World
Paperback. Twentieth-century memoir of a colonial Dutchman who as a boy escaped to Australia from Japanese-occupied Java and eventually became a global executive with ICI. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; BGHA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
A Singapore 1931 born young colonial Dutch boy, whose Father suffered and died as a Japanese prisoner of war building a railway in Sumatra, escaped from Java with his Mother and arrived as a refugee in Bunbury Australia in 1942. Educated by Jesuits and then at the University of Western Australia and Oxford, he had a career with ICI initially as an engineer, ending in 1993 following senior executive and Board roles in Australia, England, Canada and finally in the United States. His life from childhood in European colonies in Asia, spanned major changes in technology and the chemical industry. ... Read more
A Singapore 1931 born young colonial Dutch boy, whose Father suffered and died as a Japanese prisoner of war building a railway in Sumatra, escaped from Java with his Mother and arrived as a refugee in Bunbury Australia in 1942. Educated by Jesuits and then at the University of Western Australia and Oxford, he had a career with ICI initially as an engineer, ending in 1993 following senior executive and Board roles in Australia, England, Canada and finally in the United States. His life from childhood in European colonies in Asia, spanned major changes in technology and the chemical industry. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Brolga Publishing Pty Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
375g
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Ringwood, VIC, Australia
ISBN
9781925367416
SKU
V9781925367416
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Ref
99-2
About Ben Lochtenberg
Bernard Lochtenberg came to Australia in 1942, graduated an engineer at the University of W.A. and a D.Phil. at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He retired Chairman of ICI Canada and ICI Americas in 1993, and Chairman of Orica Ltd in 2001. Director of The Inner and Eastern Health Care Network and Caritas Christi Hospice, Chairman of the Mental Health ... Read more
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