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Patrick Richardson (born 27 March 1946) is a writer who has been travelling for over forty years and writing freelance travel articles for the last twenty. He has written for ''The Guardian'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', ''The Sunday Telegraph'', ''The Sunday Times'', ''The Herald'', ''The Sunday Herald'', ''The Independent'' and ''The Scotsman''. He has also held several exhibitions of his travel photography, appeared on BBC Radio Four, BBC Radio Two and BBC Radio Scotland, and read at various prestigious literary festivals, including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2009. He continues to travel to distant parts of the world, exploring isolated traditional cultures. He published his first book, ''Reports From Beyond – A Journey through Life to remote Places'', in 2008, which was ''The Herald''’s Paperback of the Week and Wanderlust’s Book of the Month. In 2014 he followed this up with ''In Search of Landfall – The Odyssey of an Indefatigable Adventurer''. == Family background == Richardson was brought up as a Quaker. His grandfather, Henry Marriot Richardson, was a communist and a pacifist who was the first salaried general secretary of the National Union of Journalists from 1918 until 1936, and the president of the International Federation of Journalists from 1930 until 1932. As part of his work, he knew H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton, as well as the press barons Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Northcliffe and Lord Rothermere. His father was also a journalist until, after 1945, the stigma of being a conscientious objector during the Second World War, when he had to work on a farm in Sussex, put paid to his career and he became the publicity director for a large agricultural company instead. His mother was an intrepid traveller. In 1920, when she was only five, her father took her on a flight with Sir Alan Cobham, the long-distance aviation pioneer, in his open-air Tiger Moth biplane. In the mid-1930s, she spent six months travelling alone in Mussolini’s Italy. Later she travelled by herself to Russia, Poland and many Greek islands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Richardson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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