CONTENTS
BOOK I Chapter 1 Times before My Memories
Chapter 2 Childhood
Chapter 3 Boyhood
Chapter 4 First Love
Chapter 5 Country School
Chapter 6 School in a Country Town
Chapter 7 More about the Family
Chapter 8 Move to the Capital
Chapter 9 October 1956 and after
Chapter 10 School in the Capital
Chapter 11 Friendships and Love
Chapter 12 Teachers
Chapter 13 Freshman
Chapter 14 Not Completely Freshman
Chapter 15 First Voyage
Chapter 16 Scorpion Love
Chapter 17 Towards the Danube Delta
Chapter 18 Home Bound
Chapter 19 Further University Years
Chapter 20 Practice on the Danube
Chapter 21 Salvage
Chapter 22 Practice Abroad
BOOK II Chapter 1 Beginning of a True Love
Chapter 2 Engagement
Chapter 3 Wedding
Chapter 4 Remote Marriage
Chapter 5 Dove Nest
Chapter 6 Launching a Career
Chapter 7 On the Seashore
Chapter 8 Repair Yard
Chapter 9 Our German Guests
Chapter 10 Preparing for a Better Nest
Chapter 11 First English Course
Chapter 12 A Busy Summer
Chapter 13 Wasp Nest
Chapter 14 In the Better Nest
Chapter 15 With Old Friends
Chapter 16 Coming of an Heir
Chapter 17 Toddler in the Family
Chapter 18 Various People
Chapter 19 Yalta
Chapter 20 Successive Changes in Work and Life
Chapter 21 Holiday in Berlin
Chapter 22 The Russian Connection
Chapter 23 Polish Lines
Chapter 24 The Soviet Connection
Chapter 25 About to Leave
BOOK III Chapter 1 Machine Tools
Chapter 2 Preparing for Africa
Chapter 3 First Days of an Aid-Expert
Chapter 4 Arrival of the Family
Chapter 5 African Countryside
Chapter 6 Life in Addis Ababa
Chapter 7 Trip to Assab
Chapter 8 Back to Addis
Chapter 9 Visit on Lake Tana
Chapter 10 Rift Valley Lakes
Chapter 11 African Traffic and Other Troubles
Chapter 12 Holiday
Chapter 13 Back to Africa
Chapter 14 Bye-Bye Africa
Chapter 15 Cairo, Athens
Chapter 16 Rolling Homewards
Chapter 17 Home Again
Chapter 18 Moscow Seminar
Chapter 19 Adriatic Sea
Chapter 20 A Final Nest
Chapter 21 The German Connection
Chapter 22 Upwards
Chapter 23 About All
Chapter 24 Downwards
BOOK IV Chapter 1 Orbit Modification
Chapter 2 Assignment Moscow
Chapter 3 Takeover
Chapter 4 Baku
Chapter 5 Everyday Work
Chapter 6 How It Happened with My Friendship
Chapter 7 Korea
Chapter 8 Intrigues
Chapter 9 Mis-corrections
Chapter 10 The Human Factor
Epilogue
BOOK V Chapter 1 Plenty of Time
Chapter 2 Chinese Food
Chapter 3 More Chinese Food and Old Acquaintances
Chapter 4 More Strange People and Acquaintances
Chapter 5 Making a Wildcat Profession into Trade
Chapter 6 My Third Profession
Chapter 7 Making a New Trade by Training
Chapter 8 Bad and Good Experiences at the Turn of Millennium
Chapter 9 New Tracks
Chapter 10 New Things and a New Family Member
Chapter 11 New World Order and New World
Chapter 12 Summer in the Autumn
Chapter 13 Grandpa-Nanny and New Activities
Chapter 14 In the Centre Once More, as Well as in the Low Countries
Chapter 15 A Retrospective View in General
Chapter 16 Hard Work and Some Good Results
Chapter 17 More Hard Work and Some Bad People
Chapter 18 Private Life
Chapter 19 Derailment
Chapter 20 Freelancer and Grandpa
Chapter 21 Nothing Lasts Forever
Chapter 22 (A)politics
Chapter 23 Intrigues and Machinations
Chapter 24 (Un)constitutional Anarchy
Chapter 25 Back to the Bad Old Days
Chapter 26 Children Are Growing Old Quickly
Chapter 27 Also Adults Are Growing Old (if They Live Long Enough)
Chapter 28 At Last in School
Chapter 29 Recent Past
Chapter 30 A new decade again
Chapter 31 Gone-by things flavoured with politics
Chapter 32 Erecting a chimney and other difficulties
Chapter 33 Invasion
Chapter 34 Visits in the country