Running The Rapids

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<p>Poet, travel writer, teacher, quiz-show presenter, broadcaster, adventurer - Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, met many people, and been many places. His life journey, marked by frequent diversions and detours, reflects the exuberant eclecticism of the man himself.</p> <p>In <i>Kildare Dobbs: A Writer’s Life</i>, Dobbs takes us from a gas-lit big-house childhood in 1930s Tipperary, to college days at Cambridge, to commando training and naval service in the Second World War. After a stint as a colonial administrator in Tanganyika, he moved to Canada in 1952, where he became variously an editor at Macmillan, managing editor of <i>Saturday Night</i> magazine, and literary editor of the <i>Toronto Star</i>. This is a self-portrait of a fascinating man of letters driven by a hunger for adventure.</p>