The Story of the Minack Chronicles: Time Was Mine, Gull on the Roof and Cat in the Window

by Derek Tangye (Author), Derek Tangye (Author), Derek Tangye (Author), Jean Tangye (Illustrator)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.27

  This volume contains three books that tell of the author's experiences travelling around countries such as America and Russia, as the world was about to be transformed by war, and of life in a Cornish cottage and flower farm. A Cat in the Window is a tribute to the author's famous pet.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.27

  In Time Was Mine , Derek Tangue recounts his journey around the world via America, the South Sea Islands, Australia, Japan, China, Russia and Germany - tasting romance on Tahiti and glimpsing pre-war Hollywood. Through the publication of that book, Derek met his wife Jeannie. And so the story of the Minack Chronicles , the series of books that have, for over 30 years, touched readers the world over. The first two are included here. A Gull on the Roof tells how they gave up glamorous London lives - Derek's with MI5 and Jeannie's as Public Relations Officer of the Savoy Hotel Group - for the tranquility of Minack, a Cornish clifftop cottage where they started a flower farm. A Cat in the Window is a tribute to Monty, the Tangye's famous marmalade cat. Derek Tangye is the author of Monty's Leap .