Old Baldie Rides Again

<p>A Series of adventures somehow fitted into a single lifetime from childhood and the struggle between myth and reality through conscription The Army Air Corps in Germany the Berlin wall the Nijmegen marches back packing a climbing accident the coalmine the steelworks incarceration in a Spanish jail Strangeways Israel two years after the Six Day War strafed caught in crossfire near Jericho held up at knifepoint in Istanbul college hang gliding learn about camels mugged in Morocco make a film crossing the Saharan Empty Quarter first solo crossing of Iceland recreating Stanley’s journey to find Livingstone a leopard a man-eating lion trained to become an astronaut but no spaceflight with N.A.S.A. nearly got spaceflight with Russians a four foot rabbit an alligator Tenerife coast to coast over volcano stroke and epilepsy wheelchair? No chance returned to Tenerife the “Cabbage in a wheelchair” climbed the volcano. Along the way Ted has been a successful folk singer and songwriter and has published the accounts of his major expeditions a novel based in the Middle East and poetry books.</p>