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Julian Walker

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Following a peripatetic childhood ambling amiably between three boarding schools and seven different family homes, Julian got the travel bug early and has maintained an enthusiasm for it despite masking an adventurous life with a more conventional desk career in public relations.

When not office bound he has managed to travel off the beaten track through jungles, remote seas, swamps, mountains and veld. He has been arrested, mugged, shot at, charged by wild animals, got himself spectacularly lost in the desert (so is not always the luckiest travel companion) and developed a taste for dry martini cocktails.

More by accident than design he has accumulated a wealth of experiences engaging with nomadic tribes, smugglers and wild animals of all i
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Julian Walker Don't fight it.
I walk away and do something different for a while to come back refreshed and sometimes with a different perspective.
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Don't fight it.
I walk away and do something different for a while to come back refreshed and sometimes with a different perspective.
Luckily (or unluckily) I have a full time job outside writing, so my time away from a project can be very different, which helps.(less)
Julian Walker The sense of oneness, completion and achievement when a book is done.
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150 Travel Tips: Celebratin...

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The Cape Crusaders

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The ascent of Everest by John  Hunt
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Despite knowing the ending, this is a mesmerising account of the climb, it team members and the planning.

Slightly old fashioned in prose style and a little formal at times, I was completely absorbed and with them every step of the way.

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The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury
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A thoroughly engaging and plot twisting thriller set against an historic background involving a quest, treasure and powerful forces of good and evil.

Great fun and highly readable.
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Atomic Habits by James Clear
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Well written and practical.

This provides a highly usable strategy and has some great ideas which I will be applying in my life.
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Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Leonardo Da Vinci
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A highly readable insight into one of the world’s greatest inquisitive minds.

Entertaining and engaging, this was hugely informative and very readable.

Great biography well told.
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Not A Penny More, Not A Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
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Having read his last book I went back to the start and read his first - a great novel with many a twist.

Easy to see why this launched his literary career.

A highly readable and thoroughly enjoyable tale, excellently told.
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Intrepid! by John J. Geoghegan
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Great stuff.

Glorious tales of forgotten glories and wonderfully eccentric adventurers from a different time in history.

A fabulously enjoyable read.
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Adam and Eve by Jeffrey Archer
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An instantly engaging and wonderfully told story with a neat little Archer-esque twist at the end which made it even more entertaining.

A master storyteller signing off in great style.
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The Lost King by Philippa Langley
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Absolutely riveting and fabulous Alice of history spiced with great detective work and determination against established views and perceptions.

I loved this - it was completely enthralling and engrossing. A real page turner.
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Things We Found in the Ground by Eleanor Bruce
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Thoroughly engaging tale of two people discovering the excitement of looking for treasure.

The co-authors alternately write chapters and maintain the flow as they immerse themselves and us in the world of detectorists - making interesting discoveries
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The North Water by Ian McGuire
The North Water
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A strangely hypnotic and engaging thriller despite having absolutely no likeable characters.

The excellent descriptive writing means you can feel the chill from the ice and black hearts of the shipmates as the story cleverly unfolds.

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Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
― Albert Einstein

Vincent van Gogh
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
― Vincent Van Gogh

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