Author: Michael Barrett

Michael Barrett was born in London and initially trained as an architectural draftsman, after which he had a great variety of jobs ranging from advertising through construction worker, assistant bosun in a Thames boatyard, musician, West-end shop assistant, Australian copper miner, commercial fisherman, and much more. He ended his working life with seven years at the London School of Economics library, and, retiring at sixty, spent periods over several years traveling in the Pacific, pursuing his interest in both Polynesian migration and European exploration. He currently lives among his books and guitars in the western Lake District.