Location: Canada
Member Since:
Sep. 12, 2019
Kobus De Villiers
Biography
After high school Kobus served in South Africa’s Bush War, before studying engineering. Working in South Africa’s infant aeronautical industry, his boundless imagination led to opportunities to study and work abroad.
Now retired and living in Canada, he reflects on his various postings and projects and all the funny adventures along the way from a dusty Free State town to living in Leonid Brezhnev’s dacha in Russia, meeting the great grandson of Henry Ford, singing “Sarie Marais” at a karaoke evening in Japan and eating a Philly-steak at a table once occupied by Bill Clinton, among many interesting experiences, to finally living in Vancouver with his French wife, and still tinkering in his garage.
Now retired and living in Canada, he reflects on his various postings and projects and all the funny adventures along the way from a dusty Free State town to living in Leonid Brezhnev’s dacha in Russia, meeting the great grandson of Henry Ford, singing “Sarie Marais” at a karaoke evening in Japan and eating a Philly-steak at a table once occupied by Bill Clinton, among many interesting experiences, to finally living in Vancouver with his French wife, and still tinkering in his garage.
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Books
Top Secret
by Kobus De Villiers
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 173,800.
Language:
English.
Published: September 12, 2019
by
Malherbe Uitgewers.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
This is a memoir translated from the Afrikaans "Uiters Geheim", by Kobus de Villiers, a South African engineer who worked on top secret projects. He recounts episodes in his life with a wry sense of humour, and older readers will recognize many of the references to childhood and growing up in the South Africa of that era.