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Merrill Lynch
Michael Dobbs-Higginson
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Product details
- ISBN 9781785630323
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 515g
- Dimensions: 155 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Eye Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately homes and public toilets, smuggling drugs across several borders, and losing a $50 million fortune to the CIA, before settling into a stellar banking career. Looking back on a life well lived as he faces terminal illness, he swears that the key to his success was his grueling training as a Buddhist monk in a snowbound Japanese monastery.
Variously descended from a pirate captain, a Lord Mayor of London and a governor of North Carolina, Michael Dobbs-Higginson was born on a farm with no electricity in Southern Rhodesia in 1941. Having studied medicine in Dublin, worked as a glove salesman and logger in Canada and taught surfing in Hawaii, he enrolled in one of the oldest Buddhist monasteries in Japan and was ordained a lay monk in his early twenties. He also became a black-belt in kendo. He subsequently became an investment banker, rising to become chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific. He died in 2021.
