Alexander McCall Smith
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Sir Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith is a Scottish legal scholar and author of fiction. He was born and brought up in Southern Rhodesia and was formerly Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edi
McCall Smith at 2025 Edinburgh International Book Festival
McCall Smith speaking at the Library of Congress in 2019
McCall Smith signing books in Helsinki in April 2007
Rawene
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Rawene is a town on the south side of the Hokianga harbour, in Northland, New Zealand. State Highway 12 passes to the south. The town lies at the apex of a peninsula. A car ferry links it to Kohukohu
Alexander McCall Smith
…Smith, born in Nairn, abandoned his wife and four children in Scotland and ran off with one of his patients to New Zealand in 1914. They settled in Rawene where he became the medical doctor and a community leader. McCall Smith returned to southern Africa in 1981 to help co-found the law school and teach…
Rawene, as viewed from the water
This strange shaped building was originally a joinery factory making doors, windows and coffins.