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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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