Triumph Around the World by Robbie Marshall
A humorous, soul-searching account of an aging hippie who gives up his hard-won career, family, and home life to bike around the world in search of new experiences At age 45 Robbie Marshall had it all, or so it seemed. He had been married, had two children, and built up a successful advertising agency. So what on earth made him trade his suit for leathers, his office for the saddle of a great motorcycle, and his bulging appointment book for an out-of-date world atlas? The prospect of a new challenge held such overwhelming appeal that he was prepared to risk it all-his hard won career, the trappings of wealth, and the love of a good woman-for life on the road and a lifestyle completely removed from anything he had known before. And so he shook hands with his business partner, kissed his girlfriend goodbye, and rode off into the unknown. Over the course of this double or nothing adventure he came face to face with his own ignorance, enormous danger, and wracking loneliness as well as some of the best that human nature has to offer.
Born on Merseyside in 1949, he was the son of an Army doctor with two elder sisters. The Military lifestyle was educationally and socially disruptive, but Robbic enjoyed spending his most formative years on the Malay Peninsular shortly after its independence from British rule. He returned to the UK to be educated at Lindisfarne College, a second rate public school (he was too stupid to get into a proper one) at the top of Ruabon mountain in North Wales. By 20, Robbie was married and attending Hammersmith College of art studying sculpture. Their first daughter, Sasha was born in 1969 before the family moved to Nottingham for a degree in Three Dimensional Design where their second child Chantal was born. His first job was with the Liverpool Regional Hospital Board as Environmental designer, but spent the next decade dragging his family around the country in search of a career in industrial design.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781903070086 |
| ISBN 10 | 1903070082 |
| Title | Triumph Around the World |
| Author | Robbie Marshall |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Eye Books |
| Year published | 2003-01-21 |
| Number of pages | 250 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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