THE AUTHOR

Owain Hughes (born 1943) was educated at Shrewsbury School and Keble College, Oxford. All his life he has travelled world-wide, usually on the ground or by sea, rarely by air. He worked in Market Research for a Nationalised Steel Company in London, taught English in Iran, worked as electrician for a kinetic sculptor in Paris, then in Osaka, Japan. He wrote about North Africa, crossed Russia by train, scoured the whole of Latin America, sailed the European and East Coast American seas, both cruising and racing. Author of two novels, he now lives in New York and Mexico.