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Hugh Thomson

Literary Arena

Saturday 18th July, 2009
14:45 - 15:05

On his first trip to Mexico, acclaimed travel writer Hugh Thomson was told by a stranger he could make money buying a car over the Texas border and taking it thousands of miles through the country to sell on the black market in Central America. What did it matter that he didn’t have a driving licence? He was eighteen years old, far from home and with time to kill. It sounded like the most sensible plan in the world….  A rock and roll adventure. 

Considered as a writer that explores and not an explorer that writes, Hugh Thomson, the author of ‘The White Rock’ and ‘Nanda Devi’, has led many significant expeditions to Peru and the Himalayas and also paved his success through his BBC award winning documentaries. The Independent has described him as 'Bruce Chatwin with cojones'.buy