Australia!
I went to the BBC to do an interview with Meredith Lake for Soul Search on ABC Soul Search
Articles
Book Briefing
The talk I did about my book with David Lorimer from the Scientific and Medical Network on May 22nd
Mindrolling
I recently did a talk with Raghu Markus in California .. https://beherenownetwork.com/raghu-markus-mindrolling-ep-532-the-lost-art-of-silence-with-sarah-anderson/
The Lost Art of Silence
Publication day – December 5th – is approaching and the book, my book, seems to be generating a fair amount of interest. Exciting! There have already been reviews in Tricycle, Foreword, Publisher’s Weekly, The Next Big Idea Club and Shelf Awareness – and I have several Zooms coming up.
2022
Ages since I’ve posted … my exhibition back in November went very well … I went to New York soon after it finished, and was lucky to be there during that small window that opened before Omicrom hit! I managed to go to lots of exhibitions including the temporarily housed Frick Madison in what was … Read more
Botswana
Just back from my trip to the Okavango Delta in Botswana, organised by Bill Burns (http://www.botswanatrek.com) and guided on the ground by Johnny Ramsden who runs a mobile-safari company with his wife Tasha. We were incredibly lucky to see so many animals close to – it almost seemed staged since each day we saw something different. … Read more
Gavin Young – published in Independent January 19th 2001
GAVIN YOUNG Although Gavin Young reckoned that he ‘fell into journalism as a drunken man falls into a pond’ he spent most of his working life as one of the Observer’s best foreign-correspondents, later becoming the author of many successful travel books. Young was born on April 24th 1928 and spent his youth in Cornwall … Read more
K’Tut Tantri – published in Independent September 1997
K’TUT TANTRI ‘Romance’ was the key to K’tut Tanti’s extraordinary character and life. She jealously protected her history by deliberately obscuring her past, by endlessly changing her aliases and by constantly reinventing herself. From what can be pieced together it seems that Muriel Stuart Walker was born in Glasgow on February 18th 1898; her mother was … Read more
Duncan Pryde – published in Independent – December 1997
DUNCAN PRYDE Duncan Pryde, who probably knew the Arctic ‘better than any white man of his generation’, was in the middle of the massive task of compiling a dictionary of the 26 dialects of the Inuit (or Eskimo) language when he died from cancer. Pryde, who had four brothers and one sister, had been brought … Read more
Ella Maillart – published April 1997 – in Independent
ELLA MAILLART ‘To dawdle is my usual fashion, as if I had the whole of eternity before me.’ This sums up Ella Maillart’s approach to travel; she liked travelling slowly, absorbing the culture and she understood the importance of finding the similarities rather than the differences between people. It was this inquisitiveness about other people … Read more