Summary of Timothy Bax's Three Sips of Gin

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#1 Africa is a beautiful place, but it is also a dangerous one. The night is when the animals come out to play, and the locals rely on the night guards to keep them safe.

#2 The askari was guarding the boma, which was nestled under a large acacia tree a few hundred feet from the living quarters where Mother and Father were entertaining. The surrounding bush fell into a deep and uneasy silence.

#3 Mother and Father had a very difficult time dealing with the fact that they were now parents of five children. They had a very difficult time dealing with the fact that they were now parents of five children, and they had a difficult time dealing with the fact that they were now parents at all.

#4 After the Groundnut Scheme failed, thousands of British servicemen were sent to East Africa to grow groundnuts. Father was one of them. He knew little about farming, but he was determined to succeed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822533431

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Insights on Timothy Bax's Three Sips of Gin

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Africa is a beautiful place, but it is also a dangerous one. The night is when the animals come out to play, and the locals rely on the night guards to keep them safe.

#2

The askari was guarding the boma, which was nestled under a large acacia tree a few hundred feet from the living quarters where Mother and Father were entertaining. The surrounding bush fell into a deep and uneasy silence.

#3

Mother and Father had a very difficult time dealing with the fact that they were now parents of five children. They had a very difficult time dealing with the fact that they were now parents of five children, and they had a difficult time dealing with the fact that they were now parents at all.

#4

After the Groundnut Scheme failed, thousands of British servicemen were sent to East Africa to grow groundnuts. Father was one of them. He knew little about farming, but he was determined to succeed.

#5

Father started building the church, but he ran into many problems. He couldn’t afford kiln-dried bricks, but the clay earth that had torpedoed the Groundnut Scheme was like gold dust to a builder.

#6

The houses that were being built were getting completed very slowly. There was a constant influx of families wanting to take occupancy, and Father was running out of money. But there was still hope for a better future.

#7

Father’s success with the domino houses led him to build a new house for us close to the beach. The house had a roof of Spanish shingles, wrought iron gates, and terracotta walkways. Petty thieves quickly took advantage of the colony’s newfound wealth.

#8

Shelagh was eventually able to get her to the school, which was a difficult task in and of itself. The entire family would pack into Father’s car and set off for the train station with the Peugeot looking like an overloaded taxi from a crowded Arab bazaar.

#9

We made a pact that if we were ever sent to the same school, we would run away. We had planned to steal food and hide it in a shoebox, along with sketches of our escape route. We were not that brave.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was horribly carsick for almost the entire journey. The only rule of the road was to stay ahead of the vehicle behind so as not to become enveloped in its rolling clouds of red dust.

#2

We had broken down in the middle of the dry thorn scrub of the Masai plains. Across the road, two Masai tribesmen were standing like motionless sentinels watching us with disdain. They were balanced precariously like storks on one leg, using the slender shafts of their spears for balance.

#3

We arrived at the village of Mombo, and started the long and winding road up the Usumbara Mountains. The rest of the trip was uneventful, except for the fact that Janet had to go pee in front of strangers.

#4

My father had purchased a picturesque hilltop house on a large acreage of ground overlooking the gently rolling hills and luscious valleys of Magamba in the central highlands of Tanganyika. Each morning the cool valleys would become awash in soft, willowy seas of milky-white mist, and the hills would rise starkly behind like the remote islands of an archipelago.

#5

The center of