When the Sun Never Set
Subtitle: A Family's Life in the British Empire
Contributors: Margaret Knowlden (Editor); Jim Dakin (Editor)
Publisher: Radcliffe Press
Published: June 16, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781850439431
Subjects: Travel writing; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; 1903-1992; b. 1875; History; History - General History; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Griffin, Charles J.; Africa - General; History / Great Britain; (Charles James),; Sir,; Biography; British; Colonial administrators; Foreign countries; Great Britain; Griffin, John Bowes,
First sentence: To the best of my two-year-old knowledge, I had never set eyes on the woman whose attentions I was determined to resist.
Description: "In 1901, Charles Griffin joined the Colonial Legal Service as one of its first recruits and embarked on a journey to Africa with his young wife Aileen. Braving the long and uncomfortable journey up the Zambesi and into British Central Africa, the pioneer couple set up home in Nyasaland (now Malawi). They were the first of three generations of Griffins who travelled throughout the colonial world and devoted themselves to the Colonial Service.".

"When the Sun Never Set traces the history of this family and the colonial way of life that has all but vanished since the end of the British Empire. Through the eyes of the Griffins, a portrait of the Colonial Service and its territories emerges. The authors give us glimpses of expatriate society and atmospheric descriptions of the countries they passed through, as well as valuable insights into the family lives of those in the service. When the Sun Never Set will inform and entertain all those interested in the history of the colonies and the families that helped to maintain an empire so vast that at one time the night never fell on its borders."--BOOK JACKET.