{"product_id":"a-raindrop-in-the-ocean","title":"A Raindrop in the Ocean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe life of a global adventurer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Vastly entertaining’ \u003cem\u003eSouth China Morning Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMichael Dobbs-Higginson lived the life that Walter Mitty dreamed of having.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRaised in a house with no electricity in colonial Rhodesia, he turned his back on Africa as a teenager to roam the world, studying at a variety of universities and institutions and moving on when he had satisfied his curiosity. He paid his way by working variously as a docker, a logger and an encyclopedia salesman, staying in accommodation as varied as a sumptuous English stately home and the floor of a Canadian public lavatory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUrged by his quasi-mystic mother to explore the great religions of the world, his ultimate destination was a Buddhist monastery on a frozen Japanese mountaintop, where he conquered gruelling mental and physical hardship to discover untapped reserves of resilience within himself that would set him up for life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe builds a business career in Japan only to be chased out of that country, in fear of his life, by ruthless CIA operatives. Retraining as an investment banker by starting on the bottom rung, he rose to become an eccentric, kimono-wearing chairman of Merrill Lynch Asia Pacific, and then made and lost several fortunes in a string of business start-ups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow facing terminal illness with extraordinary 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e‘Vastly entertaining’\u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eSouth China Morning Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘“A full life” is an understatement’ \u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Glendinning\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A remarkably philosophical memoir about what has been a remarkable life’ \u003cstrong\u003eBBC World Service \u003cem\u003eBusiness Daily\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘His unique personal doctrine, learned over years, is founded on Buddhist principles with a dab of Western morality. It is, he maintains, the key to securing balance, not happiness - which one should never strive for’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A rip-roaring account of an astonishing life’ \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlobal Markets\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘\u003c\/strong\u003ePerhaps the most interesting person I’ve ever had the pleasure of interviewing’ \u003cstrong\u003eElliott Haworth, \u003cem\u003eCity A.M.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eHardback: 288pp\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003ePublished: Eye (June 2017)\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003eISBN: 9781785630323\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eye Books Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38716184711,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1271\/4023\/products\/Screen_Shot_2017-03-21_at_11.08.37.png?v=1490212233","url":"https:\/\/www.eyebooksgroup.com\/products\/a-raindrop-in-the-ocean","provider":"Eye Books Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}