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I was born in 1962 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to English parents who were both academic scientists.  A year and a half later we moved to New Zealand, where we lived for four years and I first went to school; after that we went to England, and then to Canada again.

My parents became university professors in Ontario, where they eventually bought the farm and wilderness tract where I’ve written most of my novels. The farm continues to be a base for me, when I’m not on expeditions or living in England in a 16th century cottage beneath a castle close to my daughter’s school.

All of our travel meant that I’d circumnavigated the globe by sea before the age of six.

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I have vivid memories of our return voyage from New Zealand across the Indian Ocean and around Africa, and I’ve no doubt that those early experiences fuelled my fascination with maritime adventure. As the photo opposite shows, my fixation on diving began at a very early age!

From a child’s perspective, the