Mapping the Past
‘Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?’
''A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!’
Charles Drazin knew little about his mother''s father – only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it prompted recollections of her early life that she had never confided before: of the village in the...
‘Patsy, what are you going to be when you grow up? Well?’
''A Royal Engineer, Daddy. A Royal Engineer!’
Charles Drazin knew little about his mother''s father – only that he had been a military surveyor who mapped great swathes of the British Empire. But when his mother was told that she was dying, it prompted recollections of her early life that she had never confided before: of the village in the...
