A Raindrop in the Ocean: The Life of a Global Adventurer - Hardcover

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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.