Bridge Over Troubled Water


At times a memoir, at others a historical perspective, Bridge Over Troubled Water chronicles the history of the English-Speaking Union from its founding by Sir Evelyn Wrench and Charles Cochrane in a London cafe in 1912.In what the London Daily Mail called this sparkling book, the author gives special attention to the introduction of the ESU into Sri Lanka, a country that had banned English in 1956 in reaction to years of British rule.Michael Wynne-Par… More >>

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