About The Author

Mike Rimmer has been a teacher of history in Queensland schools for twenty years, including stints in Ravenshoe and Bundaberg. He has inspired hundreds of students, bringing new perspectives and relevance to the study of history. Inspired by his surroundings in Ravenshoe in the early 1970s and the lack of literature about its rich history, he started researching the past of the North Queensland hinterland himself - and ended up travelling the globe, tracking down the persona who shaped it.

In 1992 he set off to teach in Togo in West Africa, a country most Australians have never heard of. In Togo, he organised soccer trips and matches for children of the local orphanage and refugee camps as well as continuing his teaching and research for 'Up The Palmerston' during frequent trips around the world. After eleven years in Togo he moved on to an even more exotic location - the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan in Central Asia. Mike currently lives in London.

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