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Author of the Ambulance Driver and The Keli Dowry
 Chris in front of McNaught plotChris in ‘McNaught’ plot, St Michael’s kirkyard, Dumfries: Robbie Burns just metres to the right; amongst those in plot; ‘Wm McNaught, died at sea, Mar.3, 1856’ |  Robbie Burns in Dumfries town square |  The Ambulance DriverBook sale, Ottawa re: The Ambulance Driver. |
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 Cairn Ryan, ship entering Irish Sea |  Author at Kirkcudbright pub |  Chris as diver on U.S. Porto Keli Project, resting on the dig ketch, Tasos, in the Gulf of Argos, 1968, |
 Rhamnous - Chris & Statue |  Author & American colleague in Canadian embassy yard, Kyiv, Ukraine, for October, 2000 Terry Fox Run |  Chris in Full Gear |
 Chris with Sherd |  The ArtistLocal artist preserving Freshwater Bay |  Moon rising over Poseidon’s temple at Cape Sounion, east of Athens and scene of Cale’s ‘helicopter’ drama ( The Keli Dowry ) |
 Kiev street marketOutdoor flea market, Kyiv; note Russian military headwear |  View of Lviv from the central square |  Lavra in Kiev |
 |  The ‘Maidan’ ( ‘Independence Square’ ) with posters, candles and flowers from the famous protests beginning just before Christmas 2013 |  |
 |  Chris delivering his ‘tobacco’ spiel at the health conference, Kyiv, 2000 |  Chris in TogaPorto Keli, 1968 |
 Ukrainian health officials bookending my colleagues at Kyiv conference 2000 |  Earnest doctors and health NGOs at Kyiv conference 2000 |  International Conference centre, Kyiv |
 A promising new beginning for Ukraine and a new couple in Kyiv |  Author plundering the street market in Kyiv |  Commercial humour and fashion in the Kyiv market |
 Old ways and new: women sweeping Kyiv street as younger female stride to work |  A side street in Kyiv |  ‘Downtown’ Kyiv; square facing the Maidan |
 Elegant Tsarist era architecture, Kyiv |  Old theatre & drama school, Kyiv |  The Golden Gate, built around the 11th C., Kyiv |
 Kyiv custom has brides to be visit this statue for good luck—statue’s right hand conceals a note- indicating options perhaps being kept open |  Elderly local fishing from footbridge over the Dnipro |  |
 Not your torn-jeans corner guitar busker, Kyiv |  |  |
 |  Lenin, stoned, on street running down from the Hotel Ukraina, Kyiv |  From same era and spirit of Lilian Nichols ( my ‘Ambulance Driver’ ); what she might well have helped pioneer if she’d survived WW1 |
 Author at 17, 1964, in Piraeus, Athens-taken by street vendor |  Alfred Lord Tennyson, strolling in the 1850s at his Farringford estate on the Isle of Wight; wife, Emily, sons Hallam, and Liam ( who died tragically young) |  The grave of the real ambulance driver, in the WW1 Canadian sector, Brookwood, Surrey, UK ( photo by English friend, Mary Rodriguez ) |
 Stretcher BearersA scene all too relevant to The Ambulance Driver |  Nurse & SoldierA happier alternative to Lilian and Joseph's meeting in The Ambulance Driver |
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