To think Benedict Allen is an arrogant git?

[Shakirasma]

He comes across as a sulky child, annoyed that his game was spoiled while his family were breaking their hearts with worry.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42062933

His wife could be a fat hairy bloke called Bernard for all I know.

Fekko the most interesting place I have ever lived is the suburbs of a major Australian city. Deepest working class but multi ethnic suburb. Not the most 'exotic' but the most culturally and socially interesting to me. In terms of where I felt most at home, Sweden.

I bet s/he's not though 😂😂

I was hoping for something a bit more 😵😁

It's all very colonial isn't it? Uncomfortable

I suspect he is deeply pissed off at being "rescued".

His sister said on the radio that he went missing in the Amazon for three months a few years back.

I'm not sure why the rescue was called after so few days.
He's missed planes before and if he dies out there then so be it.

The fact that it was the Daily Heil that rescued him (presumably that is who his wife called) will be a big bone of contention in the marriage I suspect.

Sorry @Fekko I didn't do the whole exoticist anthropology thang for all the reasons mentioned above.

I did live in Bosnia for a short period (RS) which was great.

Ooh that sounded a bit snippy @fekko I didn't mean it to!. That kind of anthropology was deeply unfashionable even in the 90s and so I was very tied up in european and non 'tribal' anthropology as a result.

And I gave it all up in he end as I realised my interest was much more in intra- personal differences and to put it crudely, what made individuals tick, rather than cultures as such.

Awwww I was hoping for cockroaches the sise of dustbin lids and trees that eat monkeys. Bah.

See I am boring at heart and that's obviously why I live in the 'burbs;)

Blimey, are you projecting there, whiskyowl?

I'm a globetrotter from a family of globetrotters - some of whom were the sort of C19th and early C20th pioneers Allen aspires to be. They didn't choose to leave behind all comms: there were no comms. When they got sick, it was several days' canoe or trek to get even the most basic medical help. Several died.

I'm ambivalent about their behaviour, given some of their work was valuable. And having wanderlust too, I'm not sure whether I've struck the right balance myself between fulfilling my interests and being a neo-colonial arsehole. I've certainly tried.

Basically I survived as a know-nothing foreigner in distant corners of the world because of the kindness of the friends I made there; I took a considered decision not to repay those friends by packaging their lives as exotica for sale to the public.

Did anyone else read the article in the Daily Mail about how his wife is still angry and has banned him from exploring?