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Sir Charles Pereira FRS: Illustrations by the author : Simama - A lifetime study of tropical issues

UK: Teston Books, 2000

Hardback, first edition, very good condition, no dust-jacket, publisher's original red clothboards with gilt blocking to front and spine, 167 pages, b/w photo and line illustrations - with 22 illustrations by the author.Autobiography of Sir Charles Pereira FRS who spent 23 years in Africa as a research agriculturalist and hydrologist. The places he lived and worked in included Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika amongst other parts of the world. His experiences are never dull (especially hunting the Mau Mau). CONTENTS:- Introduction; Canada - a contrast in settlement densities; Pre-war Britain; The need to stop Hitler; A Sapper war; Atlantic convoy; Western Desert; Italy; Germany; UK; Watersheds in East Africa; Colonial Service; Wildlife; Mau Mau; Watersheds in the USA;Rhodesia and Nyasaland; New Research Council; UDI; Family Progress; World watersheds; Ethopia challenge; International Hydrological Decade; Apple trees to Whitehall; FRS; East Malling; Rothschild; Chief Scientist; International Research; CGIAR and the TAC; new research Centres; NZ;. Tropical Agriculture; Sri Lanka; Zimbabwe; Mugabe conference; Royal Society Missions; Nairobi University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; With the World Bank in China;Mountain Watersheds; Tracing family roots; Portugal and the Azores;Golden Wedding Safari; Population and Land Use; Developing countries in Congress; New Delhi; Forestry and White water;Other Dimensions; a philosophical aside; Epilogue; an essay.THE AUTHOR : Sir Charles Pereira, tropical hydrologist, was born on May 12 1913 in London. He spent his early years in Saskatchewan on an Indian Reservation. He was educated there, then at St Albans School and the University of London, where he graduated in mathematics and physics. After postgraduate research at Rothamsted Experimental Station he gained his PhD in 1940. During the war he served in the Middle East and then in Italy, where he put his skills in hydrology to good use. Thereafter he went to Africa and in 1966 was awarded the Haile Selassie Prize for his research. On returning to England he worked at the East Malling Research Station in Kent, his research being written up in Land Use and Water Resources during a year at the University of Cambridge. In 1973 he was appointed Chief Scientist for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1969 and was knighted in 1977. He died on 19 December 2004.

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