The Beken file

Canonical title: The Beken file
Original title: Beken, Ma Vie
Original publication date: 1979 (French original) (French original); 1980 (English) (English)
People/Characters: Beken (family of Cowes)
Important places: Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, UK; Solent, England, UK
Epigraph: [None]
Dedication: To my sons Anthony and Kenneth . . . no cure for sea fever
First words: . . . It's blowing Force 5, gusting 6; white messengers are scudding low across the sky, foretelling storm; the sun is bright to the eye; we, in our cockleshell, are on an endless safari, sliding and pirouetting on the surfin... (show all)g waves in a perpetual ballet.

Introduction.
The year is 1837.

The good old days.
Last words: (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Many people ask, 'What is your most satisfying picture?' and to this I can only quote in reply the words that Imogen Cunningham spoke in her nineties: 'The one we shall take tomorrow.'
Original language: French

Classifications

Genres: Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 920 — History & geography Biographies, Genealogy, Healdry Biographies