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    A Raindrop in the Ocean: The Life of a Global Adventurer

    By Michael Dobbs-Higginson

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    A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, the author swears that the key to his success was his gruelling training as a Buddhist monk in a snow-bound Japanese monastery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEye Press
    Release dateMay 25, 2017
    ISBN9781785630385
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    A Raindrop in the Ocean: The Life of a Global Adventurer
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    Michael Dobbs-Higginson

    MICHAEL DOBBS-HIGGINSON is a natural storyteller who has been, variously, a Buddhist monk, a logger, a surf instructor, a drug smuggler and chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific. He lives in Singapore, London and France with his wife, Marie-Thérèse and is the author of the bestseller Asia Pacific: Its Role in the New World Disorder.

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    • 3/5
      There are those that achieve one or two notable things in their lifetime, writing a book, standing on top of mountains or some sort of sporting achievement. Given the number of thing that Michael Dobbs-Higginson has achieved, Zen Buddhist Monk, learning to speak Japanese, investment banking career, losing a fortune and gaining a fortune, surviving a encounter with the CIA, sailing the Atlantic, drug smuggling, and travelling all around the world, you’d think that he has lived several lives.

      He would have carried on had he not been diagnosed with cancer, and this book is his recollection of the life that he lived. In in he tells the stories of how he became the person he is now, from his earliest days growing up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and the training that he undertook in Japan that gave him the balanced outlook that enabled him to face all that life threw at him with resilience and good humour.

      It was an entertaining read, written in a straightforward, matter of fact style. At times it felt exhausting reading as he rushes about here and there, setting up businesses and even at one point designing a car. Even with his illness looming over the future, he still manages to be very positive and I think relishes the life he has been able to lead.