Travels in a Dervish Cloak

About Isambard Wilkinson

Isambard Wilkinson was born in 1971. As a young boy in Ireland he listened to family stories of adventurous botanists and artists sailors and soldiers who travelled through China and Africa India and Albania. It fired an urge to roam. Expelled from school at 15 after university he was refused entry into the Royal Marines and instead worked for Country Life magazine before leaving to travel throughout Pakistan an ambition curtailed by kidney failure. After a stretch on dialysis and his first kidney transplant he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in Spain and then in Pakistan where he completed his travels the subject of this book. Following a second transplant he now works for AFP in Hong Kong.