Bergen - Baker, James

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Résumé :
Bergen. Norway Tour Guide. Bergen is the Gateway to the Fjords of Norway. As a UNESCO World Heritage City and a European City of Culture, the Bergen region has the ideal combination of nature, culture and exciting urban life all year around. Bergen has long stood out as a bold and innovative city of culture. In Bergen, local does not equate to unimportant or amateurish. Here, local artists are one step ahead, both nationally and internationally. They are simply performing at world-class levels! Surrounded by seven hills and seven fjords, Bergen is a beguiling city. During the early Middle Ages, it was an important seaport and a member of the Hanseatic League, as well as Norway's capital a heritage that can still be glimpsed in the beautifully preserved wooden buildings of Bryggen, now protected as a Unesco World Heritage site. Chocolate-box, clapperboard houses creep up the hillsides, ferries flit around the fjords, and a cluster of excellent art museums provide a welcome detour, and not only in case Bergen's notoriously fickle weather sets in. Meanwhile, a large student population ensures the city has a buzzy bar scene and nightlife, and easy access to nature means you're minutes away from complete tranquillity....

Biographie:
James Baker has had ongoing interest and experience in using photos, video, and other media to tell stories, especially when there is not a common language. He was the founding President and later CEO and Chairman of a research laboratory in Palo Alto which served Xerox in Japan and Asia. For 13 years he traveled extensively in Japan where he used media to describe and discuss technology and research results because he did not speak Japanese. He was the lead author of New Mexico's Pueblo Baseball League, a photo story book of the history of Native American baseball in New Mexico. He was involved in industrial research in systems and software technology for over 30 years and is the author of more than 20 technical publications.

Sommaire:
James Bruce Baker was born on December 17, 1925, and has never lived it down. He was born in a wee, little one-horse town by the name of Darrouzzuett [he wasn't sure of the spelling], Texas. That's up in the North-East corner of the Texas panhandle, just about where the Oklahoma panhandle begins across the State Line. In his first six years of life he had typhoid fever, double pneumonia, and the red measles. They say he had to learn to walk twice. He doesn't know, since he's not sure he was there. He started grade school in the town of Shamrock, Texas through the heart of which ran the once famous Highway 66 [now called I-40}. When WWII started, he was just entering High School in Shamrock. In 1943, he left home and went to Amarillo, Texas and got a job in a grain elevator of a 200,000 bushel capacity. He didn't smoke in those days, and that was a good thing, because the chaff from grain such as wheat is highly flammable. That year, he went home for Xmas and was late getting back to his grain elevator job. He was fired. He walked across the tracks and immediately got a job in the FT. WORTH AND DENVER Railroad roadhouse. He was there about six months when he was drafted, as had been many of the boys before him on that job. When the war was over, and he asked for his job back, they laughed at him. He had one year of high school at the time, and with his G.I. privileges, he was able to start college as a freshman. He made up his lost high school years when he came out to California and started to college there. He received a Public School District certificate of High School completion. He finished four years of college besides and went into Grad School, but S.F. State College at that time was strictly a teachers college, and he had to have a teaching credential to graduate with an MA, so he quit school at the age of 30 and went into real estate. He sold real estate in the bay area and in Sacramento for 31 years. At which time, in 1984, he was hospitalized with a perforated ulcer, and quit real estate, and he quit smoking. They cut his Vegas nerve, and he hasn't gambled since [look it up, it's real.] He started writing his first novel when he was ten years old, and he had his own secret method of writing so that no one else could read it. He went from right to left, starting at the bottom of the page. When he was away to war, his younger sister threw it away. She couldn't make heads or tails of it, of course...so he ......