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Robert Twigger

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Robert Twigger is a British author who has been described as, 'a 19th Century adventurer trapped in the body of a 21st Century writer'. He attended Oxford University and later spent a year training at Martial Arts with the Tokyo Riot Police. He has won the Newdigate prize for poetry, the Somerset Maugham award for literature and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.

In 1997, whilst on an expedition in Northern Borneo, he discovered a line of menhirs crossing into Kalimantan. In 1998 He was part of the team that caught the world's longest snake- documented in the Channel 4/National Geographic film and book Big Snake; later he was the leader of the expedition that was the first to cross Western Canada in a birchbark canoe since 1793 ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 3,907 ratings · 440 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	Angry White Pyjamas: A Scrawny Oxford Poet Takes Lessons from the Tokyo Riot Police 3.98 avg rating — 1,718 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Micromastery: Learn Small, Learn Fast, and Find the Hidden Path to Happiness 3.47 avg rating — 710 ratings — published 2017 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River 3.85 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking the Great North Line: Up England Another Way 3.73 avg rating — 246 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe by Robert Twigger, Map Endpapers (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2006 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Mountain: A Cultural Adventure Through the Himalayas 3.57 avg rating — 151 ratings — published 2017 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	36 Islands: In Search of the Hidden Wonders of the Lake District and a Few Other Things Too 3.58 avg rating — 114 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Extinction Club: A Tale of Deer, Lost Books, and a Rather Fine Canary Yellow Sweater – A Poignant Story of Rare Species Preservation 3.16 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2001 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Snake: The Hunt for the World's Longest Python 3.28 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1999 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dr Ragab’s Universal Language 3.56 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on to microfilm is a costly business. The library won't let you do it yourself - they decide first which books should be scanned and which should just rot away in the basement.
Against that eventuality, people should start hoarding the kind of books committees of rational people will decide against scanning into a database.”
― Robert Twigger

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“Then there are panacea programs and actions: bring back national service and the juvenile problem will end, stop advertising on TV, ban internet porn, revive grammar schools, ditch the EU. People pin their hopes on a single action curing a host of interconnected problems. But they forget the world is how it is for very good reason.”
― Robert Twigger, WALK

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“Literally, budo means ‘the way of war’, but it has connotations far beyond this. It connotes a way of life involving sacrifice, honour and pain.”
― Robert Twigger, Angry White Pyjamas: An Oxford Poet Trains with the Tokyo Riot Police

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