Uriel's Legacy - Softcover

Maurits Van Der Veen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1553954629 ISBN 13: 9781553954620

Verlag: Trafford Publishing, 2006

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Book by Maurits Van Der Veen

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Reseña del editor

A journey from generation to generation from the trials of a "heretic" from the 16th Century to the imprisonment of a boy in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai the 20th Century.

Biografía del autor

    Maurits Van der Veen was born in Shanghai, China. He spent his early teens in a Japanese Internment camp and was repatriated to Holland after the surrender of Japan. He completed secondary school, served with the Dutch Air Force then emigrated to Canada. In Canada, he took a variety of jobs, from mucker in a mine in Mayo, Yukon, to personnel clerk in Kemano, B.C. He moved on, signing up as a seaman, on an American freighter delivering grain to Japan, and later, as a purser on a small coastal freighter delivering freight up the coast of British Columbia.
    He attended the University of British Columbia School of Social Work, and worked as a field social worker for the Province of B.C. Later, he became the Director of Welfare for the Yukon Territory.
    He moved south to B.C. again and worked for the Federal Department of Corrections from where he eventually retired as warden of a Federal penitentiary.
    He lives in Vancouver during the summer and spends the winter months in southern California.

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• Verlag: Trafford Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1553954629
• ISBN 13: 9781553954620
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 388