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Hardcover Comfort Not Included: Life and Work in Far-Flung Corners of the British Empire Book

ISBN: 1445695553

ISBN13: 9781445695556

Comfort Not Included: Life and Work in Far-Flung Corners of the British Empire

Colonial officials posted to the Gilbert Islands were advised to employ a full-time fisherman -- otherwise they would have no food. Single men going to British Honduras knew that no government quarters were available and boarding houses were 'exceedingly poor.' Those working in British Somaliland depended for their safety on a locally recruited and not entirely reliable camel corps. Living on the Gold Coast meant taking quinine every day of your term...

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