Barnaby Rogerson

Writers bio:
Barnaby Rogerson was conceived upon a yacht and was born in Dunfermline. Eighteen years later he got a lift on a Naval destroyer leaving Gibraltar and returned to Fife as a history student at St Andrews.

After two jobs in publishing he worked for the Afghanistan Support Committee, as a tutor on a Greek island, as a barman and in the restoration of grottoes and the construction of garden temples. In the last ten years he has been a travel writer specializing in North Africa and the lands of the old Ottoman Empire. He also takes lecture tours and with Rose Baring set up Eland Books in 2000 which re-prints classic travel books.