Unpredictable Journey: A Memoir (Hardcover) by Ernle W D Young

9781532032783. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 398. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 398 p. In this memoir Ernle W.D. Young tells of growing up as a farm-boy in Bedfordview Johannesburg South Africa and making the unpredictable life-journey to Palo Alto California; from being a printer pastor and political activist in South Africa to becoming a full professor at Stanford University; from having had to leave his native land because of his implacable opposition to the Nationalist government s apartheid policies and he and his family making new lives in their adopted country. It is the story of one trained in ethics primarily concerned about social justice--founding in Bloemfontein a branch of the Progressive Party committed to building a racially integrated South Africa--having to make the transition to biomedical ethics and the ethical conduct of research first at Stanford and then at NASA s Ames Research Center in Mountain View. It is the story of a fifty-eight-year marriage to his beloved wife Margaret who believed in him and stood by him through thick and thin--of a marriage almost wrecked and then painstakingly salvaged and re-built stronger than ever. It is the story of the achievements and accomplishments of their four children and seven grandchildren. --Publisher s description.