Robin Hanbury-Tenison

Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE, DL, Dsc, Dhc, MA, FLS, FRGS is an explorer with a conscience. He has spent much of his life travelling in the world's rainforests and deserts and campaigning to protect both them and their people. One of the few remaining explorers who merits the name, he made the two first crossings of South America from East to West (1958) and North to South (1964/5). He believes that the spirit of exploration is alive and well and never more needed than now, as we begin to realise how little we really understand our world and how rapidly we are destroying it.His latest book, The Modern Explorers, salutes both those who have inspired us in recent years and those who are continuing the tradition of pushing the limits of knowledge and human endurance. 'The author of over twenty books, most of which are still in print, he has recently become celebrated as a photographer via the critically acclaimed exhibition Echoes of a Vanished World that details his first encounters with pristine peoples and places. Echoes of a Vanished World was first shown at the National Theatre and the Eden Project. It will now move to the Dimbola Gallery on the Isle of Wight and will finally go on permanent display in the Natural History Museum at Eton College.From his farm on Bodmin Moor, which last year won the Award as the Best Large Scale Renewable Energy Project in Cornwall, he still travels widely, lecturing and visiting expeditions in the field. Visit his website www.robinsbooks.co.uk