In Search of Serenity

by R.V.C Bodley

IF peace of mind can be possessed through reading books about it, a considerable multitude, particularly in the English -speaking world, should recently have acquired it. For certainly there has been no lack of books on this subject, and some of them have had a remarkable circulation.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1955

About the author

Major Ronald Victor Courtenay (R. V. C.) Bodley MC (3 March 1892– 26 May 1970) was a British Army officer, author and journalist. Born to English parents in Paris, Bodley lived in France untill he was nine before he attended Eton College and then the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Bodley was commissioned into the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served with them during the First World War. After the war he spent seven years in the Sahara desert, and then travelled through Asia. Bodley wrote several books about his travels. He was considered amongst the most distinguished British writers on the Sahara, as well as one of the main western sources of information on the South Pacific Mandates.

Bodley moved to the United States in 1935, where he worked as a screenwriter. He re-enlisted in the British Army at the outbreak of the Second World War and was sent to Paris to work for the Ministry of Information. He later emigrated to the United States, where he continued to work as a writer and also as an advisor to the United States Office of War Information.