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He lived and worked in England and South Africa and was the first person to broadcast from South Africa in support of Rhodesia. This book is a portrait of him by his wife Ursula, but also contains some of his own accounts of his flying activities. Illustrated with photographs see photo of George Bernard Shaw with Judith and Geoffrey Potter Pietermaritzburg 1935. There is 11 more photos of Sydney 1902 in Royal corps 1917, London, Marriage photo with this add, Fairchild aircraft 1947, Waco aircraft 1935 Judith's farm, Putney Coach house 1966, Nairobi Dykes house, Durban 1945, Hollywood USA 1934, Sydney 1970 etc. etc.. Sydney Barnett Potter emigrated to South Africa in the 1930s for health reasons where he worked as a journalist and broadcaster. He left South Africa in 1950 with the rise of the Nationalist government, but returned in later years. Born in 1897, a journalist, broadcaster, airman, one of the 'angry young men' of the early twenties, a Labour candidate and editor of The Miner
ISBN 0 86978 110 3, Howard Timmins. Cape Town. 1975 Yellow hardback with dustcover, 161pp. illus b/w photos. 8vo. Good condition, well-binded clean book.