An Appetite for Life

2011-09-28
An Appetite for Life

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  • Author: Charles Ritchie
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
  • ISBN: 1551996774
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 169

Charles Ritchie’s first volume of diaries, The Siren Years, created a sensation when it was published in 1974. Besides winning the Governor General’s Award for Non-fiction, it was hailed by reviewers on both sides of the Atlantic. An Appetite for Life, his second volume, first published in 1977, deals with his youth in Halifax and his career at Oxford—the years when Charles Ritchie turned from a callow, blundering youth into a callow, blundering young man. As these diaries show, Charles Ritchie had a sharp eye, a keen ear, a highly developed sense of the absurd, and—despite his unhappy knack of landing flat on his face —a thorough “appetite for life.” This is not only a hilariously funny book, but it presents a vivid picture of two worlds—Halifax and Oxford in the mid-twenties—that are now long gone. It also introduces us to an astonishing range of characters, but the most astonishing of all is the young Charles Ritchie himself.

The Siren Years

2011-10-05
The Siren Years

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  • Author: Charles Ritchie
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
  • ISBN: 1551996782
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

Charles Ritchie, one of Canada’s most distinguished diplomats, was a born diarist, a man whose daily record of his life is so well written that it leaps from the page. In wartime England, Ritchie, as Second Secretary at the Canadian High Commission, served as private secretary to Vincent Massey, whose second-in-command was Lester B. Pearson, future prime minister of Canada. In a perfect position to observe both statecraft and the London social whirl that continued even during the war, Ritchie provides a fascinating, perceptive, and (surprisingly) humorous picture of the London Blitz – the people in the parks, the shabby streets, the heightened love affairs – and the vagaries of the British at war. There are also glimpses of the great, and portraits of noted artists and writers that he knew well. A vivid document of a period and a wonderful piece of writing, The Siren Years has become a classic.

My Grandfather's House

2011-09-28
My Grandfather's House

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  • Author: Charles Ritchie
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
  • ISBN: 1551996812
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 179

In this book, Charles Ritchie looks back at some of the characters that peopled his childhood and youth, in the years before his brilliant career in Canada’s diplomatic corps began. In these essays we are introduced to his uncles, Harry “Bimbash” Stewart and the dashing, doomed Charlie Stewart; to his indomitable mother; to his mad cousin Gerald; to the newspaper tycoon Lord Beaverbrook; to his college friend Billy Coster, who threw away wealth and a secure future; and to a host of others. With his usual unerring eye and elegant prose, Charles Ritchie brings them all to life again, with affection and wit.

Laughter Is the Best Weapon

2021-06-23
Laughter Is the Best Weapon

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  • Author: Charles Ritchie
  • Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
  • ISBN: 9781399091886
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, and other far-away trouble spots gave him many opportunities to demonstrate that the ability to laugh - and make others laugh - is an invaluable skill in an officer's kitbag.In Laughter is the Best Weapon - the Remarkable Adventures of an Unconventional Soldier, Charles abandons the popular trend for military heroism and angst-ridden confessions. Instead he leads the reader on a forthright yet light-hearted and self-deprecating journey through his 38 years' service as a Royal Scot. In the process we witness his sometimes significant, but often comedic, participation in a wide range of recent British military operations.If you prefer your military history more entertainingly honest than earnestly intellectual and your soldiers hilariously slapstick rather than heroically stoic, then this is the book for you. Liberally sprinkled with career-limiting cock-ups, bizarre near-death experiences, and the clatter not of gunfire but shameless name-dropping, these delightfully varied anecdotes deliver a hugely entertaining glimpse into the extraordinary life of one of the British Army's most spirited and loveable characters.

Diplomatic Passport

2012-02-08
Diplomatic Passport

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  • Author: Charles Ritchie
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
  • ISBN: 1551996790
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

In his first book, The Siren Years, the public was introduced to Charles Ritchie as a young diplomat serving with the Canadian Embassy in wartime London. In Diplomatic Passport, we follow his career as he climbs the rungs of the diplomatic-service ladder – as an advisor to the Canadian Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; as a Counsellor at the Canadian Embassy in Paris, where his friends celebrate Ritchie Week – to the city’s surprise; as Assistant, Deputy, and Acting Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs in Ottawa; as Canadian Ambassador to Bonn, where he finds himself reciting Little Red Riding Hood in German at a state dinner; and as Permanent Ambassador of Canada to the United Nations.

Love's Civil War

2010
Love's Civil War

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  • Author: Elizabeth Bowen
  • Publisher: Pocket Books
  • ISBN: 9781847392343
  • Category : Diplomats
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

The love affair between the celebrated writer Elizabeth Bowen and the elegant and charming Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie blossomed quickly after their first meeting in 1941 and continued over the next three decades until Bowen's death. Published for the first time, accompanied by extracts from Ritchie's remarkably candid diaries, the love letters of Elizabeth Bowen reveal an intelligent, passionate and wonderfully funny woman. In her letters and his diaries we hear the lovers' voices. Set against an ever-changing backdrop, from the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, and featuring a glorious cast of socialites, writers and politicians, including Nancy Mitford, Iris Murdoch, Isaiah Berlin and John F Kennedy, Love's Civil War is at once a fascinating and intimate portrait of a great love that endures distance, circumstance and time.

Tourism

1999-10-01
Tourism

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  • Author: Charles R. Goeldner
  • Publisher: Wiley
  • ISBN: 9780471356714
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 380

Storm Signals

2012-03-26
Storm Signals

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  • Author: Charles Ritchie
  • Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
  • ISBN: 1551996804
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 191

In the fourth volume of selections from his delightfully wise and witty diaries, we see Charles Ritchie, the seasoned (but never stuffy) diplomat, in his last two major postings – as Canadian Ambassador to Washington and as Canadian High Commissioner to London. Full of anecdotes rather than briefing papers (was JFK really “shooing” the new Canadian ambassador out of his office?), Ritchie’s diaries are at their amusing best.

Return from Tomorrow

2023-01-31
Return from Tomorrow

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  • Author: George G. Ritchie
  • Publisher: Baker Books
  • ISBN: 1493441116
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 119

The True Story of an Uncharted Journey Through the Afterlife As a world war raged around him, a young soldier named George Ritchie barely comprehended his own death as he left the physical world--only to return minutes later. Yet in the space between death and coming back to life, he experienced eternity. In this riveting true story, Dr. George Ritchie shares some of the most stunning and detailed descriptions of life after death. You'll encounter other non-physical beings, travel through different dimensions of time and space, and discover a series of worlds--some hellish in their separation from life, some glorious in their heavenly brilliance. But most amazingly, you'll witness his transformational meeting with the Light of the world, the Son of God. Hailed as one of the most amazing visions of the afterlife ever recorded, Ritchie's experience forever changed the course of his life and his understanding of the realm beyond our own--and it can do the same for you.

TOURISM PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, PHILOSOPHIES, 10TH ED

2007-08
TOURISM PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, PHILOSOPHIES, 10TH ED

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  • Author: Charles R. Goeldner
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 9788126513437
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 620

Market_Desc: For students in two and four year undergraduate programs, for an introductory course in travel and tourism. The text is also used at the graduate level. Special Features: · Both authors are internationally known for their work in travel and tourism· Revised 8 page four color insert · Most comprehensive coverage of travel and tourism About The Book: This is a revision of the most comprehensive and widely used introductory text for tourism and hospitality students worldwide. This text covers theories and philosophies of tourism in addition to introducing students to the development, structure and impact of tourism on destinations and travelers alike.