Goodbye Berlin : the biography of Gerald Wiener / Margaret M. Dunlop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunlop, Margaret M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wiener, Gerald.

Geneticists--Great Britain--Biography.

Geneticists.

Jews--Great Britain--Biography.

Jews.

Jewish children.

Great Britain.

Germany--Berlin.

Kindertransports (Rescue operations).

Jewish children--Germany--Berlin.

Jewish refugees--Great Britain.

Jewish refugees.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Birlinn Limited, 2016.

Contents:

1 Hello, Dolly 1

2 Berlin Childhood 7

3 Early Schooldays 12

4 Goodbye, Berlin 16

5 New Beginnings 22

6 The Spooners of Oxford 30

7 Farming 36

8 Student Days 43

9 Meeting His First Wife 52

10 The Scientist and the Big Sheep Experiment 55

11 To the USA 66

12 Finding a New Family 75

13 The Lucky Break 82

14 Ethiopia 87

15 Melbourne Conference and a Return to Ethiopia 96

16 A Homecoming 102

17 Edinburgh Years and A Fateful Meeting 107

18 Wedding Bells 113

19 Return to the USA 117

20 The American Family's Story 121

21 Revelations in Golden Gate Park 130

22 Luise's Story 135

23 A Journey to Meet a Brother 141

24 A Sentimental Destination 145

25 Marion's Story 149

26 Catching Up With Old Friends 152

27 From Glory Through Turmoil to Dolly 158

28 Retirement, a New Career, and a Quick Exit from Yemen 169

29 1988 - A Busy Year 175

30 The Road to the Yak Country and Bangladesh 186

31 Return Visits to China 195

32 A North Korean Interlude 203

33 Return to Berlin 207

34 Back to India 212

35 Yak Conferences and New Visits 225

36 Events, Serious and Entertaining, in China 237

37 Later Years 246.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781780274201

1780274203

OCLC:

961933987

Publisher Number:

99969455290