Mark Gregory Probert

Born in Hampshire in 1954, Mark Probert has spent most of his life as a mapmaker. After twenty-eight years working for Ordnance Survey, he set up his own company in 2003 and spent the following seventeen years travelling extensively overseas. Now retired and living in rural Dorset, he spends his time writing, walking, cycling and motorcycling. Another Journey through Britain is his first book and describes a two-week road trip from one end of the country to the other. His second book, published in November 2021, is another travel memoir that describes a coast to coast backpacking adventure across India. Mark traversed the sub-continent in January 2020 with his friend of 40 years, Nick Lindsay. Entrusted out on their own for five weeks, the boys narrowly avoided arrest on day one in an incident that set the tone for the rest of their adventure. Expect railways, curries, near-death road incidents, religious shrines, camels… and lots of cows.