Rory Spowers

Rory Spowers has been living near Galle in south Sri Lanka, with his wife and two sons, since March 2004. Rory’s background is as a writer, researcher and broadcaster whose last book, Rising Tides, a history of ecological thought, was critically acclaimed in the UK by The Sunday Times, The Observer and a variety of magazines. He is a featured writer at Travelintelligence and has presented various travel programmes for BBC radio.

Rory’s first book, Three Men on a Bike, was a bizarre tale of cycling through Africa with friends on the original three-seater ‘trandem’ used by The Goodies on BBC TV. This trip inspired Rory to walk the length of India in 1996, making a pilgrimage from Kanyakumari, the southern tip of the country, up to Calcutta.

In 2002, Rory co-founded The Web of Hope (WoH) (www.thewebofhope.com), a UK registered charity compiling an expanding on-line database of role models for sustainability, social justice and positive change.