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Verlag: Murdoch Books, 2012
ISBN 10: 1742668569ISBN 13: 9781742668567
Anbieter: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, Neuseeland
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 211 pages. He was the grandson of a gold miner who arrived in Ballarat in the 1850s. His own father, a widower, raised a small army of kids, and Cyril was the first to go to university. He wa s sent to England during WWI and in the 1920s was employed by the flamboyant and entrepreneurial Fred Walker, charged with the tas k of creating a substance that would, in time, be named Vegemite. Cyril remained at Kraft until his death in 1949. He was a progre ssive boss and encouraged further training for all of his staff, many of them women. Cyril was also a husband and father to three children-two were struck down by polio as children, while the thi rd, a fighter pilot, was tragically killed while on a dawn air so rtie in the Trobriand Islands, east of PNG during WWII. The Man W ho Invented Vegemite is a must-read for all of us interested in r emarkable Australian stories. Jamie Callister sets out to learn m ore about the grandfather he never met and, along the way, discov ers that extraordinary things can happen to (almost) ordinary peo ple.