Tales of Iloilo

About the Book

From the relative comfort of life in North America in the early 1950's, an eleven-year-old boy finds himself on a wild and fearful ride across the Pacific Ocean to embark on a new life on the tropical island of Panay in the Philippine Islands.

Tales of Iloilo is a collection of true adventures experienced by the author as a young boy. From an embarrassing ride on a water buffalo to ducking the attack of a thousand bats flying out of a cave, you feel the trepidation, wonder and excitement of his encounters with a whole new world.

About the Author

David Larsen was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1940. His mother had been a teacher in a one-room school before she married his father who was a principal for a rural school district.

When he was four years old, the family moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and, when he was ten, he and his parents made their journey to the Philippine Islands where they lived for six years.

After finishing college he taught English at the high school level for four years and then returned to university to complete a master's degree in Speech Pathology. He worked as a Speech Pathologist for 42 years in South Dakota, The U.S. Virgin Islands, Nebraska and Canada.

He has lived in Canada since 1972 and now resides in North-eastern Ontario where he is enjoying retirement, beside a lake, with his wife Diane.