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Golders Green was once a rustic part of the Middlesex countryside, a peaceful place isolated from London by a range of hills. From 1907 onwards, the district grew rapidly and soon became a busy transport hub, a thriving shopping area, and a sprawling suburb. Simultaneously, the fields and woods immediately east of Golders Green were developed by idealists hoping to establish a community without social barriers - they created the Hampstead Garden Suburb. In this book, Adam Yamey, who spent the first three decades of his life in these places, explores their past and present. His account is interspersed with memories of the area in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. This richly illustrated volume will interest visitors as well as people who live (or have lived) in the area.

ABOUT A VICTORIAN PIONEER OF ARTISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY. A chance encounter with an inventor of photography led to JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879) becoming a pioneering artistic photographer. Her work transformed photography from the slavish copying of nature into a creative artform. Born in India, she was educated in France, worked in England, and died in Sri Lanka. For 15 years, she lived on the Isle of Wight, where she created most of her vast photographic oeuvre. This book, illustrated with images and maps, describes Julia's life; her remarkable family; her circle of eminent Victorian friends and acquaintances; her travels; and the nature of her photographic output. Adam Yamey has followed in her footsteps in London, the Isle of Wight, India, and Sri Lanka, and presents her intriguing life and milieu from an exciting new perspective.

Overcoming the very real fear of disease, medicine and surgery, can be difficult * This is a self-help book for the anxious.* Fear of the unknown plays a large role in generating medical patients' anxieties. *In order to allay the fears of those who dread medical interventions, Adam Yamey shares his own experiences of suffering from a prostate problem, and undergoing the surgery required to resolve it. Sparing the reader the goriest details, he injects his graphic account with insight and witty observations.

*This is a true tale of bombs, guns, lawyers, patriots, philosophers, revolutionaries, and scholars. It concerns a little known part of the history of India?s long struggle for independence. *A large Victorian house stands in a residential street in the north London suburb of Highgate. Between 1905 and 1910, it was known as ?India House?, and was a meeting place and hostel for Indian students, many of whom wished to help liberate India from centuries of British domination. *In the 19th and 20th centuries before India?s independence, many young Indians came to England to be educated. This is the story of a few of them, who came to Britain in the early 20th century, and then risked sacrificing their freedom, prospects, and lives by becoming involved in India?s freedom struggle. *This book describes the true adventurous exploits of members of Highgate's India House (including VD Savarkar, Madan Lal Dhingra, and VVS Aiyar) and its history.

DISCOVER GUJARAT, DAMAN, and DIUAlmost wherever you live, you are bound to have met members of the Gujarati diaspora. Yet, Gujarat in western India, where they originated, is hardly known or visited by foreign and Indian tourists.Adam Yamey?s richly illustrated book describes his travels through Gujarat and two former Portuguese colonies, Daman, and Diu, with his wife. Her knowledge of Gujarati allowed the travellers to speak with locals and gain their insightful views about Gujarat?s past, present, and future.Join Adam and his wife in their adventures through the land where Mahatma Gandhi grew up and Lord Krishna ascended to heaven. Meet the people and discover places whose beauty rivals the better-known sights of India. ++ This book will be of great interest to tourists. It is an insightful personal view of the region rather than a guide book ++ ***** GET TO KNOW GUJARAT AT GROUND LEVEL *****

A book concerned with challenges faced by Jews in early 19th century Prussia. Until Hitler's rise to power, Breslau (now Wroc_aw) had one of the largest Jewish communities in Germany. In 1814, the author's ancestor Nathan Ginsberg was born in the city when Reform Judaism was in its ascendancy. In this book, his education is described in detail to illustrate the difficulties and decisions that Jews in Prussia had to face before members of his faith were given more freedoms in the latter part of the 19th century. The author also provides a traveller's guide to some of the places that Ginsberg might have known in his lifetime, and what is left of them today. Fully illustrated with monochrome images and some maps.

Adam Yamey's informative travelogue offers a new and interesting look at Albania: its valiant people, its intriguing history, its wonderful landscapes, and its myriad attractions. The author, who first visited the country in 1984 when it was ruled by a Stalinist dictatorship, rediscovers Albania now that it has become a democracy. Profusely illustrated, Rediscovering Albania introduces one of Europe's lesser-known countries.

From Mosenthal to Mandela ... ... a FRESH look at the story of the Jews in South Africa . Jewish migration to South Africa began as a trickle at the beginning of the 19th century and became an exodus by its end. Always a minority in the European population of what eventually became South Africa, the Jews who emigrated there from Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries have played a disproportionately large role in the country's development. Often escaping from repression and hostility in Europe, they arrived in a country which was no stranger to oppression. From the jail-breaker to the soap-maker who became Senator; from the dentist who made noodles in Cape Town to a man imprisoned for defying apartheid: Adam Yamey tracks the story of Jewish settlement in South Africa, illustrating it with the stories of members of his family to exemplify landmarks and trends in this fascinating history.

Albanian communities have been in existence in Sicily for over 500 years. Albanians have been living in Sicily since the 15th century. They have preserved their language and and traditions that pre-date the arrival of the Ottomans in the Balkans. This volume is about the descendants of the Albanians who left their Balkan homelands when they were invaded by the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century. Known as the Arbëreshë in Sicily and the other parts of Italy where they settled, many of the descendants of these refugees have managed to continue their Albanian traditions, culture, and language whilst integrating harmoniously with their Italian neighbours. In this book, Adam Yamey describes his visit to the Sicilian Arbëreshë people and illustrates it with a profusion of fascinating photographs. Combining personal observation with in-depth research, this - at times entertaining, and always informative - personal travelogue is one of only a few books in English about Sicily's Albanians.

Ants, bacon, collagen, and chlorine. These are not the first words that usually spring to mind when thinking about summers in Greece. The holidays that Adam Yamey spent in this country in the 1970s and 1980s with the professor and his wife were far from ordinary. This book provides an affectionate portrait of two remarkable people with whom the author spent many unconventional vacations. It also describes how the author travelled with them through a Europe which has undergone many transformations since these trips were made. Adam's book is richly illustrated with his own photographs, many of them showing places that time has changed beyond recognition.

Jakob Klein, who is desperately trying to earn enough to look after his young family, gets into bad trouble with the law and is thrown into jail, awaiting trial by the highest court in the land. His family have been forced to flee from their home in Rouxville, leaving him to an uncertain fate. Set in the wilds of southern Africa in the 1870s, this adventure is inspired by reality. Follow Jakob's fortunes and misfortunes in this exciting tale of debt and deception.

Adam Yamey visited Yugoslavia frequently over a period of more than 20 years. He criss-crossed the country from north to south and east to west. During his travels,he stood in the footsteps of Archduke Ferdinand's assassin in Sarajevo and those of Emperor Diocletian in Split, ate Chinese food in Novi Sad and offal at Rtanj, and also played Scrabble with Yugoslavs all over Serbia. In this profusely illustrated, trail of memories, the author describes the friendships that he made with Yugoslavs all over the country, and how these led to his deeper understanding of, and love for their country. As the years passed, the author began noticing small things, which made little sense at the time, but later turned out to be portentous. These were early signs of the troubles that were to lead to the disintegration of Yugoslavia soon after the author's last visit to the country in 1990. Join the author in the exploration of a country that no longer exists.

The people of Albania achieved independence in 1912, having endured several centuries of Ottoman domination. After the First World War, they lived under a series of dictatorships beginning with that of King Zog. He was followed by Mussolini, and then by Hitler. They were 'liberated' by the Communist partisans at the end of the Second World War, only to be subjected to yet another dictatorship. This was led by Enver Hoxha. During his 30 year 'reign' Albania became even more impenetrable to outside observers than North Korea is today. In this book about Albania, published to celebrate 100 years of Albania's independence, Adam Yamey describes how his almost obsessive interest in the country developed and what he discovered about life inside the country's closely guarded, tightly sealed borders when he managed to visit it in 1984, the last year of Enver Hoxha's life.

ONLY read this book if nostalgia and fascinating tales of travel appeal to you. Adam Yamey's coming-of-age stories are set in three continents during the 1950s, 60s and '70s. They explore a wide selection of topics ranging from St John the Baptist's index finger to John F Kennedy's untimely death, from Archimedes bath to Pearl Harbor, from Mozart to Mussolini, and much more. The reader will encounter many celebrities including artists, economists, musicians, philosophers, and millionaires, as well as a US politician and a judge. Join the author on a series of memorable and sometimes unusual journeys made during his youth, and discover which malevolent dictator's hand he shook and whether Charlie Chaplin really did wave to him. This memoir of vacations made during childhood and adolescence is richly illustrated with photographs taken by Adam Yamey. His travelogues "Albania on my Mind" and "Scrabble with Slivovitz" have already met with much critical acclaim.