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Miles Bredin

Here is a short resume of my life since school - skipped university and lived in Paris for a couple of years where I sold helium balloons and whisky. Came back to England where I learnt how to restore and then dealt in antique lace. This metamorphosed into making dresses out of antique lace with a more talented partner - had a shop on the Fulham road, briefly. Became a mini-cab driver - my most successful career to date - I was very good. Became a journalist by shifting on various London papers until given a job as a researcher at ES magazine. Carried on freelancing (mainly features). Went to Kenya on holiday and ended up covering the rebel overthrow of Ethiopia....

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Pale Abyssinian Pale Abyssinian

Interview

Miles Bredin, born in London in 1965, has written for most of the British national newspapers, and from 1990 to 1992 was United Press International′s East Africa bureau chief. His first book Blood on the Tracks: A Rail Journey from Angola to Mozambique was published in 1994. The Pale Abyssinian brings to life a fascinating character whom Bredin first came across in Ethiopia, and who is likely to rise from relative obscurity to be re-established as one of Britain′s most exotic heroes.

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