Jock Purves (1901–1988)

Jock Purves has produced this absorbing book, an autobiography concerned with the most colorful and dramatic period of his life, the years spent in Lesser Thibet and on the Indian-Afghan Frontier. In part it is a tribute to the memory of colleagues - men and women of 'the unlisted legion' who lived, and sometimes died, in that remote and challenging mission field on 'the roof of the world'; but it is chiefly the human story of the people of those regions and others, who are vividly depicted in a series of individual portraits.… (mehr)