Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Freeman

Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Freeman

The Middle East is rarely out of the news, usually for all the wrong reasons. The peoples that form this region are as diverse as those that form Europe, yet they all get lumped together as fractious, unruly and ungovernable, ruled over by absolute monarchs and power hungry dictators. Look beneath the surface and you will find people who just want to make a good life for their families and raise the standards of their country. It was author John Freeman's privilege to work with people of the Middle East for over 20 years - from Turkey to Iraq in the north to Oman and Yemen in the south with all the countries in between. He made many friends among the companies his firm supplied, and was able to visit Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, China and many other places. John Freeman's story tells of the people he met and the strange, comic, and bizarre incidents that happened on his travels.

John Freeman joined the then well-known Bristol printing and packaging company E. S. & A. Robinson in 1953. He worked in their flexible packaging company Colodense until 1996. Colodense became wholly owned by British Cellophane of Bridgwater in the 1950s. From the production planning department, John transferred to internal export sales in 1956. Eventually as the Middle East started to use oil wealth to develop its own industries, John started travelling regularly to the area in 1974 and continued to do so until his retirement.

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ISBN 13	9781781320341
ISBN 10	1781320349
Title	Leaving on a Jet Plane
Author	John Freeman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SilverWood Books Ltd
Year published	2012-07-10
Number of pages	260
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