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The life of a global adventurer
Michael Dobbs-Higginson lived the life that Walter Mitty dreamed of having.
Raised in colonial Rhodesia, he turned his back on Africa as a teenager to roam the world. He paid his way by working variously as a docker, a logger and an encyclopaedia salesman, staying in accommodation as varied as an English stately home and the floor of a Canadian public lavatory.
His ultimate destination was a Buddhist monastery on a Japanese mountaintop, where he conquered gruelling hardship to discover untapped reserves of resilience that would set him up for life.
He built a business career in Japan only to be chased out, in fear of his life, by ruthless CIA operatives. Retraining as an investment banker, he rose to become an eccentric, kimono-wearing chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific. He then made and lost several fortunes in a string of start-ups.
Now facing terminal illness with calm, he tells his tales of drug-smuggling, bed-hopping and buccaneering business deals with a raconteur's panache, while expounding a religious philosophy, honed over thousands of years in the East, that prioritises balance over winning and losing
