John Harrison
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John Harrison is a travel writer and environmentalist, and a native of Liverpool, England. He took First Class Honors in geography at Cambridge University and a Masters Degree in planning at Liverpool University. For 20 years he worked for the UK government in various local and national capacities on planning and environment matters, and wrote fiction and articles. John's short stories have been broadcast on the BBC and collected in book form. His latest travel book, Where the Earth Ends, about South America and Antarctica, was a Sunday Times Book of the Week, and has been translated into German. He won first prize in the Alexander Cordell Travel Writing Competition in 2004, and second prize in 2005. John has traveled to 47 countries on six continents, and has extensive cruise experience in Antarctica and the subantarctic, the Arctic, Chilean Fjords, and the British Isles. He has made radio programs for the BBC about Antarctica and Easter Island. His particular interests are the links between real voyages and famous fiction, the remote cultures of southern South America, and the impact of exploration and conquest. In 2002 John walked 700 miles through the Andes for his next book, A Walk to the Sun, about the high sierra. He was the first outsider some of those people had ever met. John is a member of the Society of Authors, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and in 2000 was elected a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. Further details are on his website: www.cloudroad.co.uk