The Alchemist’s Manuscript: of the Travels of the Merchant of Yemen & His Servant in the Erythrean Sea as Related to the Alchemist of Gozo, the younge

S. Giga Patney has taught English as a Foreign Language in England, Japan and Portugal and English as a Second Language in England and Canada. In his 35 years of teaching, he has taught Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Adult classes; and developed and taught Teacher Education programmes at graduate and post-graduate levels at universities in the UK and Canada. His research work is in Sociolinguistics. He has retired to a hobby farm in the interior of British Columbia where he does not, it has to be said, live with his wife, two children and two dogs.