Don't Throw Away Your Stick Till You Cross the River

The Journey of an Ordinary Man

• Author(s): Vincent Beach, Anni Beach,
• Publisher: Story Monsters LLC
• Pages: 331
• ISBN_10: 1589850769
  ISBN_13: 9781589850767
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General , Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs , Education / General , History / Military / United States , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies , Social Science / Black Studies (Global) ,

Description:... Vincent Beach has crossed many rivers, beginning in 1944 when he left his rural Jamaican home and enlisted in the Royal Air Force. He dreamed of becoming a jazz musician and without any musical background, bought an old clarinet and began to practice. He emigrated to the United States and, with little education and even less money, joined the United States Air Force and completed a 22-year career as a military bandsman. In his autobiography Vincent shares the intimate details of his inspiring life. An ordinary man by his own description he has experienced a lot-from war, to racism, to love found, lost, and rediscovered, to the birth of his children, and the tragic deaths of two of them from Lupus. Vincent's heartwarming story will engender hope and optimism in readers everywhere. Book jacket.