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Johnson may not be the Empire's most able servant, but he certainly is keen and is very good at replacing expertise with enthusiasm. How, though, to protect the Empire from its most devoted upholder? How, come to that, to protect Johnson from himself?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #340594 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 243 pages

About the Author
Joyce Cary was born in 1888 into an old Anglo-Irish family in Londonderry, Ireland. At the age of sixteen he studied painting, first in Edinburgh and then in Paris. From 1909 to 1912 he was at Trinity College, Oxford, where he read law. He then fought and served in the Red Cross in the Balkan War of 1912-13. Thereafter, having joined the Colonial Service in 1914, he served in the Nigeria Regiment during the First World War. He was wounded while fighting in the Cameroons, and returned to civil duty in Nigeria in 1917 as a district officer. West Africa became the locale of his early novels. Cary settled in Oxford in 1920, and died there in 1957.