Maroon cloth binding with gilt title on the repaired spine.

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This is a very rare author’s copy to which she adds additional photographs taken by her during her Moroccan visit. She adds personal asides to this fascinating book. A book which Jack Lang’s father obtained from the author’s  Gloucester cousin.

Author: Agnes Maude Fraser (1859–1944)

Alternate Name(s): Frances MacNab (pseudonym)

Frances Macnab was the pseudonym for the globe-trotting and undaunted 19th century journalist Agnes Fraser, one of the first women to write about British Columbia. Already an experienced world traveller, she took the new CPR railway line across Canada to British Columbia in 1897 where she went from Victoria to Alberni and commented, “The great defect in the British emigrant is his un-adaptibility, and many men would be useless in any but one capacity, while others appear to regard a change of occupation as degrading.” She went to Nanaimo, back to Victoria, up the Fraser River, from the Okanagan to the Kootenays, to Rossland and Trail, always contemptuous of Americans. She was robbed in Grand Forks, explored the Columbia Valley, visited Banff and returned to Liverpool via Quebec. Her 369-page book derived from her trip is British Columbia for Settlers: Its Mines, Trade and Agriculture (1898).

BOOKS:

• Relics: Fragments of a Life (1894)

• On veldt and farm, in Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, the Transvaal, and Natal (London: Edward Arnold, 1897)

• British Columbia for Settlers: Its Mines, Trade and Agriculture (London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1898)

• A Ride in Morocco Among Believers and Traders (Edward Arnold, 1902)

NOTE: This is an original  book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Note: Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam.

In 2008, Jack was one of the co-founders of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, alongside other members of the Department, and acted as the Foundation’s Chair. The project’s original goals were modest: to build and distribute low-cost computers for prospective applicants to our Computer Science degree. Initially the project was a “success disaster”, as Jack would say, as demand far outstripped the low-scale manufacturing plans. Ultimately the Raspberry Pi became the UK’s most successful computer with more than 60 million sold to date. Jack was drawn to the educational possibilities of the Raspberry Pi, its potential uses in emerging economies and the way it could support self-directed learning.