In 1938 at the age of 18 months, Byron Stratford Davis, a refugee child of a Scottish mother who was working in Germany and an absent American father, arrived in England from Germany. Over the next five years, several kind and talented strangers in the city of Brighton and Hove were instrumental in creating and mapping out his future life as a searcher, explorer, physician, and writer-poet.
In 1938, at the tender age of eighteen months, Byron Stratford Davis, the author of this memoir, first set foot on British soil. Remarkably, from that moment, his memories crystallized with exceptional clarity, etching themselves permanently in his mind.His mother, with a German lover back in Hambur...