Ins & Outs of Barbados 2023

123 Shopping Laden with intriguing revelations of key events that have shaped the story of his life, Bjorn Bjerkhamn’s candid autobiography offers a compelling read from start to finish. Born in Norway to a German mother and a Norwegian father at the end of the Second World War, Bjorn spent the early years of his life without the stability of a permanent home. By the age of fourteen he had already lived in five different countries on four separate continents. And when his family finally did choose to settle down, it was in the remote jungle of Venezuela where they had to build their own simple house and start a farm from scratch. Reaching a tipping point where he had to seize control of his own destiny, 16-year-old Bjorn left his family and went to live with friends in Barbados. Driven by a burning ambition to improve himself and determined to resurrect his long neglected education, he overcame numerous obstacles and setbacks to earn a place at university and graduate as a Civil Engineer. Less than three years later, aged just twenty-six, Bjorn launched his own construction company. After experiencing a steady stream of early successes, his innovative ideas and bold investments paid off sufficiently to enable him to gradually become one the Bajan Viking The Story ofMy Life Bjorn Bjerkhamn For information on availability: keith@millerpublishing.net most successful entrepreneurs in Barbados, and arguably the country’s leading developer. Today, after more than five decades in business, he is still going as strong as ever and has no intention of slowing down. So, what makes this man tick?