Name: Finding Home: A Windrush Story
SKU: 56861439
Price: 13.77 EUR
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Author: Howard Gardner
ISBN: 9781914344237

Type

Physical Book

Author

Howard Gardner

Publisher

Jacaranda Books

Language

English

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781914344237

Synopsis "Finding Home: A Windrush Story"

Alford Dalrymple Gardner is one of the few living passengers to have travelled on the Empire Windrush. Now published for the first time, this is his stirring life story. On 22nd June 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and two stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. Alford Dalrymple Gardner was among them. Alford's story traverses both the uplifting highs and intolerant lows that West Indian migrants of his generation encountered upon travelling to Britain to forge out a life. From joining the British military during World War II to being forcibly deported back to Jamaica once it was won-only to come back to the UK when the government decided it needed him again-Alford witnessed milestone events of the 20th century that shaped the country he still lives in today. In the context of a supposedly 'post-Imperial' Britain where the lives of West Indian migrants hang precariously on the whims of the Home Office, Alford's heartening testimony is a celebration of those who endured hardships so that generations to come could call this place home.

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner, Harvard professor and director of the Harvard Project Zero, is known for his theory of multiple intelligences (musical, kinesthetic, logical-mathematical, linguistic, spatial, interpersonal 1 and intrapersonal), presented in Frames of Mind. His other notable books include Multiple Intelligences and Intelligence Reframed. Doctor Honoris Causa and Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2011), he is a prolific author in cognition and education.

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