Nigel Dennis

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.