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Jack Vanderwyk

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http://www.goodreads.com/jackvanderwyk

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November 03, 1951 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

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May 2011

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I’m Jack Vanderwyk, I was born in 1951, and my nationality is Dutch. I live in Nice, France, and in St Leonards-on-Sea, U.K.

I started my professional career when I was 15, as a ship’s chef. Then I studied political science in Moscow (Patrice Lumumba University), worked in Northern Ireland and South Africa as a political adviser, managed a bar in the Amsterdam Red Light District for two years, went back to sea as a head chef on a traditional tall ship with 75 passengers and 65 crew, ended up in New York, where I lived in the Chelsea Hotel for a couple of weeks, until I ran out of money and had to find a job, which was social worker for serious heroin addicts in Harlem. Back in Holland I became a probation officer for the same group of addict...more

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Average rating: 4.00 · 1 rating · 0 reviews · 37 distinct works

	A History of Nice -- My Guided Tour by Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author), Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Origin of Chocolate Labrador Retrievers by Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author), Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Dog Psychology by Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author), Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Who Is Who in the world of Labrador Retrievers by Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author), Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Gastronomics by Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author), Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Hergé - Kuifje -- Een dubbelbiografie by Harry Thompson, Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Translator), Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	My rating:
	In de frontlinie -- Oorlogsreporter van Vietnam tot Bagdad by Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Translator), Peter Arnett, Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994	My rating:
	Fergie -- Het verhaal van Sarah, de hertogin van York by Chris Hutchins, Peter Thompson, Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Man zonder gezicht by Markus Wolf, Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Translator), Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	Het Japan dat nee kan zeggen by Shintarō Ishihara, Jaap van der Wijk (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Translator), Jack Vanderwyk (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	My rating: