Persistence of Light: From a Japanese Prison Camp to an Elephant in the Alps to Silicon Valley - Softcover

Hoyte, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1948749068 ISBN 13: 9781948749060

Publisher: Terra Nova Books, 2018

Synopsis

John Hoyte was a student at Cambridge University who realized one day that a grant he might get could provide an interesting and unusual summer vacation. And thus was born the idea of leading an elephant over the Alps via the trails, paths, and mountain passes taken by Hannibal with his army and war elephants in 218 B.C to do battle with the Roman empire.

Hoyte’s successful mission, with an elephant named Jumbo on loan from the Turin zoo, became a media sensation, leading to international coverage and starting him on the way to a fifty-year career as an inventor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

Hoyte’s story is a fascinating one, beginning with the six years of his childhood spent in a Japanese internment camp in China during World War II. Throughout the years that followed, he has taken each surprising twist and turn of fate and used it to help build a life infused with purpose, creativity and fulfillment.

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About the Author:

As one of six children of British missionaries in China, John Hoyte grew up in a life built on family and faith―until World War II swept through, putting him and his siblings in a Japanese internment camp for six long years. Grit, determination, and imagination were the only way to survive―and they became the basis for the seven decades that followed, marked by such amazing exploits for Hoyte as leading an elephant across the Alps to follow in Hannibal’s path and perfecting an invention that launched a 50-year career in Silicon Valley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Terra Nova Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1948749068
• ISBN 13: 9781948749060
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248