If you've ever said, "Well, I'll be hanged!" you probably don't know what actually happens in an execution chamber. Geoff Abbott does – he's even had a hangman drop a noose around his neck!
'From Butcher's Boy to Beefeater' is a riveting account of former Beefeater, Geoffrey Abbott's extraordinary life. Join paratroopers, as he did, in their airborne training... experience conditions aboard a troopship in the U-boat-infested waters of the Atlantic... endure a torpedo attack in the Indian Ocean during WWII... or find out what it's like to live in a haunted Royal Palace.
Discover how to hold a heron; how to cope on a safari with a big-game hunter; belly-dance in the approved Baghdad manner; or carry an occupied coffin. Find out how Geoff was invited to choose the President of the United States; how he's been a Member of the Queen's Bodyguard, and how he knows how to fly a helicopter backwards (lacking rear-view mirrors or a beep-beep device!).
If a career in television or mace-bearing is beckoning... if you need to brush-up on your molinology... or improve your wrist action when swinging an execution axe, stop looking, as your search is at an end.
'From Butcher's Boy to Beefeater' is a riveting account of former Beefeater, Geoffrey Abbott's extraordinary life. Join paratroopers, as he did, in their airborne training... experience conditions aboard a troopship in the U-boat-infested waters of the Atlantic... endure a torpedo attack in the Indian Ocean during WWII... or find out what it's like to live in a haunted Royal Palace.
Discover how to hold a heron; how to cope on a safari with a big-game hunter; belly-dance in the approved Baghdad manner; or carry an occupied coffin. Find out how Geoff was invited to choose the President of the United States; how he's been a Member of the Queen's Bodyguard, and how he knows how to fly a helicopter backwards (lacking rear-view mirrors or a beep-beep device!).
If a career in television or mace-bearing is beckoning... if you need to brush-up on your molinology... or improve your wrist action when swinging an execution axe, stop looking, as your search is at an end.
