Ryaed OwensThe author was born in Ireland in early 1929, moved to England with his family in 1937 and received a Grammar School education at Milland House in W. Sussex. Matriculating in 1946, he entered the Royal Air Force and served for 2 ½ years. Dismissing bth a History scholarship at Durham University and being articled at his grandfathers legal chambers in London he ventured into the unknown, accepting a four year contract with the Anglo-Sumatran Rubber Co., as a Junior Assistant Manager on a rubber estate in Indonesia. Read More Read Less