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Routines and orgies : the life of Peter Cundill, financial genius, philosopher, and philanthropist / Christopher Risso-Gill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Risso-Gill, Christopher, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cundill, Peter.
- Capitalists and financiers--Canada--Biography.
- Capitalists and financiers.
- Philanthropists--Canada--Biography.
- Philanthropists.
- Value investing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (443 p.)
- Distribution:
- Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The biography of value investor Peter Cundill - marathon runner, world-traveler, philosopher, cultural enthusiast, and playboy.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One
- Some Family History
- An Unusual Childhood
- Rites of Passage
- The Early Journals: A Sampler
- New Challenges
- Vancouver-Bound
- Apprenticeship on the Move
- Going It Alone
- Part Two
- Taking the Plunge
- Epiphany and a Fallen Idol
- The Cundill Value Fund
- Tilting at Windmills
- European Experiments and Expeditions
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Cycles and Sashimi
- Crisis and Opportunity
- A Farewell and a Promise
- Part Three
- Vintages ’48 and ’38
- The Everest Trek
- The International High Life
- In Dante's Dark Wood
- Confidence Regained
- Reclaiming the initiative
- Travelling with Purpose
- Alarums and Excursions
- Part Four
- Reality Checks
- Now We Begin Again
- A year of Anniversaries
- The Perfect balance
- The Turn of the Tide
- The seeds of a Troubled decade
- Confronting Mortality
- Part Five
- A Bachelor Again
- Time Present
- Triumph and disaster
- The Turn of the screw
- Part Six
- A brief Respite
- The Tide Turns Again
- The spark of Life Regained
- Living in the Moment
- Fast Lane to the Finish
- Epilogue
- Net-Net Work Sheet
- Notes from a Battle-Scarred Warrior
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780773596887
- 0773596887
- 9780773596870
- 0773596879
- OCLC:
- 1078872037
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