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Roger Russell
Born in 1947 in Eldoret, Kenya Roger attended school in Bournemouth, UK and St David's College in Johannesburg, SA.
Roger Russell fell into a long drop toilet when he was three ye...view moreBorn in 1947 in Eldoret, Kenya Roger attended school in Bournemouth, UK and St David's College in Johannesburg, SA.
Roger Russell fell into a long drop toilet when he was three years old, out of a car when he was four. He went on to almost drown himself at six, cut through his left leg when he was seven and crush his right arm when he was nine. By the time he was eleven he had spent over a year in hospital and had been the recipient of many hundreds of stitches. He was banned from playing soccer or rugby and could not run to save his life. He started in the mines at nineteen and lost his finger in an accident before a month had passed. He joined the U/G Rescue team and was gassed, trapped and lost underground within the space of a single year. Roger married in 1968 and is the father of four children by his first wife, Sharon, to whom he was happily married for twenty five years before she died of cancer in 1993. He has since remarried and lives with Cynthia on a 30 foot motor cruiser in Hermitage Marina near St Ives in the UK. They have one child, a boy named Gordon after Roger's father. In 1993, after the death of his wife, Roger walked from Beit Bridge on the Northern border of South Africa to Cape Town, a distance of 2000km. He slept alongside the road and walked alone and un-armed through one of the worst political times the country had ever seen. He saw then and has continued to see immense power in common people. In 1999 he walked right around South Africa to support a much maligned South African Police Services. He was mugged by a squatter camp gang, attacked by a policeman in a remote station in the Transkei and swept away in a flash flood in the Orange Free State. He has seen police barracks that were worse than some prison cells, met and spoken with criminals, saints and politicians. The British media called him a South African hero and Steve Tshwete, the South African Minister of Safety and Security at the time said he was truly a South African patriot. Roger has also walked in America on two occasions, promoting South Africa and cancer awareness to the people of California, Nevada, New Mexico and other states. Roger has written several books all of which he plans to publish with Smashwords in time.view less
Books by Roger Russell
Second Spin African Warrior Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecond Chances Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLiving in the Dark Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWho is Amen: African Warrior? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnce Upon a Time in a Crystal Cave Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSalvation: A Return to Eden Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFinal Take Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecond Take Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDesolate Journey Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGamble Taken Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings