Robert Wright

[N.B. Rather frustratingly, a search for my Authors Page on Kindle now includes other books with my name, Robert Wright, in front of my own books. I did not write the book about Buddhism which always comes up first. I am sorting out this mistake by Amazon now.

My seven titles are these: "Hunza and the Raj", available in paperback as well as Kindle, and the six which follow are all on Kindle only: "Letters from Hunza"; "A Box of Travel Papers"; "Rebellion in Gilgit: The Man for the Hour"; "Monkey Mischief"; "More Money Mischief"; and "Four Gripping Sieges". My brief biography follows below:]

I was in born in 1949 in Ismailia on an army base beside the Suez Canal; my father was a British officer, and this was one of several postings aboard for our family. At that time the Empire was being mopped up, handed over to democracy, and becoming the enduring Commonwealth of Nations. Best loved and remembered were 2.5 years we spent among the tropical rubber plantations of Malaysia, where we stayed-on after Independence in 1957.

A yearning for an easy, warm and privileged life in the East had been born in me. So it was that at 21 I hitch-hiked alone to India with the firm intent of learning yoga and meditation: but it was the roadside life of adventures and astonishingly lucky coincidences that had really caught me.

In all I clocked up eleven years of risky escapades abroad – including a 19 month sentence in a Lebanese prison. When I returned from that all I wanted to do was work hard and learn new skills to save by to go traveling again. Ultimately I settled down as a wood turner and carver making reproduction English antique furniture, with big four-poster beds being my forte.

My first books are all about these travels; but later I researched and wrote about the ancient, as well as the British colonial histories, of the places I had stayed for longest. “History as adventure”, became my motto.