Another Place Another Time
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Another Place Another Time by Elaine Baker
Society's premier passenger jet. An era celebrated by the wealthy. Discover how one woman soared among luxury and escaped death.
In the early 1950s, Elaine Baker dreamed of an adventurous life traveling the world. As a stewardess for British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), she met movie stars, fell in love with a captain, and visited extravagant destinations across the globe. And when her airline sent her to the USA to publicize commercial air travel, it didn't take long for Elaine to reach celebrity status.
Having fallen ill on a trip in the Far East, Elaine gratefully accepted her friend's offer to take over the next leg of her assigned trip. But what should have been a day of rest and relaxation becomes a tragedy mourned by thousands. With news of the devastating crash of Flight 781, Elaine is shattered by the loss of all passengers, including the colleague who fatefully took her place.
Written as one woman's look inside a time gone by, Miss Baker reflects on the details leading up to the day that would change her life forever. Set in fascinating locales like Rome, London, and Singapore, Elaine's emotional reminiscence will leave you wanting to continue the journey.
Another Place Another Time is a compelling memoir of a survivor's narrow miss in one of the world's first commercial jet air disasters. If you like poignant historical events, conquering trauma, and one-of-a-kind adventures, then you'll love Elaine Baker's deeply personal account.
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Elaine is interested in making real world impact - taking the ideas and inspiration of the university beyond academia to help solve some of our biggest problems. She has worked on developing policy recommendations to deal with the growing burden of waste, how to make waste-water pay its own way, how to change the face of mining so it includes people and the planet alongside profit and why our coastal ecosystems are worth more alive than dead.
Over the last 10 years Elaine has been working with partners in Australia and Norway on a project that is redrawing the map of the world - to date assisting more than 60 developing coastal states in their efforts to prepare submissions to the United Nations, for what is known as extended continental shelf. This process, when complete, will establish the outer limits of marine jurisdiction for eligible coastal states, helping to finalise global maritime boundaries. A recent milestone in the project was the joint submission for extended continental shelf made by seven West African coastal states. Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Cabo Verde and Sierra Leone joined together in an historic collaboration, to make a single submission for a large area of marine territory.
In the Pacific Professor Baker is a co-founder of the Pacific Maritime Boundaries collaboration, which includes the University of Sydney, GRID- Arendal, SOPAC/SPC, Geoscience Australia, the Pacific Forum Fisheries Association, the Australian Attorney Generals Department, the Commonwealth Secretariat and 14 Pacific Islands States. Since 2008 scientific, technical and diplomatic personnel have been meeting twice a year at the University to prepare claims for extended continental shelf under article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and more recently to negotiate and prepare national legislation for shared maritime boundaries.
The boundaries projects, known collectively as the Shelf Programme, is building on these successes to develop other initiatives that support sustainable livilihoods along side good ocean governance.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781838275617 |
| ISBN 10 | 1838275614 |
| Title | Another Place Another Time |
| Author | Elaine Baker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Golden Age Publishers |
| Year published | 2020-12-18 |
| Number of pages | 236 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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