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Fine. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Inscribed By Author (UK) Presumed 1st edition INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR: "J----/ with love/ Joe", 20/2/13" no othe rmarkings, Fine. Wraps 233pp, a few B&W photos. This is the third biographical book by Dr Joe McCall, a geologist, aged 92. The book covers the years 1940-60. It commences with his call to the R.A.S.C. in WW2. In England, he had a close encounter with German bomb at Bulford in 1941, before sailing off to Madagascar in a Falkland-style exercise, initiated by Churchill at about a week's notice. He took part in three Combined Operations landings: afterwards, he went to East Africa in 1943, serving from Ethiopia to Tanzania. He returned to University, obtained first class honours at Imperial College, and did two years postgraduate study, mapping in Donegal. After leaving academia, he worked in industry in Australia, Canada and England and led a major regional mapping project in Iran. He was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Science by London University in 1968 and has received the Coke Medal of the Geological Society (1994) and their Distinguished Service Award (2011), and also a Distinguished Service Award of the International Union of Geological Sciences (1997). (1.3 JM 0920.