This image is the cover for the book The Great History of the Manor Bouchove Part 3: La Licorne and the Labyrinth

The Great History of the Manor Bouchove Part 3: La Licorne and the Labyrinth

Having lived in a house the villagers of Bouchove sweetly call châtelet, I realised I have enjoyed a privileged life. This is also true for the place of my birth, Maastricht—the most beautiful town of the world, I shamelessly claim. I have grown up there in a good family with ten children. Eighteen years old, I started my study on Rural Development in Wageningen, which is the smallest university town of the Netherlands. There, I had the luck to find my lifetime wife, who followed me to all the places in the world my ambitions reached for. She gave birth to our two daughters and a son—three children we raised together and who developed along different lines into worthy individuals. Looking back on all this, I praise my luck and thank the Lord for it.

Pith Schure

Born in the most beautiful town of the world, Maastricht, the author moved at age 18 to Wageningen to study rural development. In the company of his all-time wife, Mieke, he worked in two dozen – mostly tropical – countries all over the world. They have two girls and a son. Abroad, he worked on land and water use and improvement, the building of farmhouses, institutional development and project performance evaluation till into his seventies. While on his home base, he undertook to restore a chatelet. As from his sixties, he dug up the history of the noblesse in Europe, having been the masters of the chatelet and surrounding lands, and wrote the trilogy The Great History of the Manor Bouchove about it.

Austin Macauley Publishers