Francis William Bennett

Leaves from My Log; a Naval Officer's Recollections of Personal Adventures in Various Parts of the World. Francis William Bennett

Publisher Marketing: Title: Leaves from my Log; a naval officer's recollections of personal adventures in various parts of the world. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bennett, Francis William; 1869 viii. 316 p.; 8 . 10026.bbb.21. Contributor Bio:  Bennett, Francis William Returning back home to the U. S., Bennett would use the GI Bill to graduate from the Kansas State University engineering college and build a career around agricultural development and conservation as part of Cold War, serving through the U. S. A. I. D branch of the U. S. State Department in both north and south India, in the Sudan, in two locations in Sri Lanka, in northern Uganda, and in Kenya. Eventually, he would use that same development experience to finish a career serving in the State of Kansas Department of Health and Environment developing water quality conservation programs. But, that career all started in 1946 while on Manus Island in the South Pacific.