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Robert Hutchison (born 26 May 1938) is a writer and journalist from Montreal, Canada. He is the author of eight books covering white-collar crime and adventure travel to historical fiction.
Early Life
editSon of Dr Keith Ogilvie Hutchison and Millicent, née Branch, Hutchison attended Lower Canada College in Montreal and McGill University, but did not complete a Bachelor of Arts degree, preferring to travel instead. In May 1959 he married Bridget Pyke of Hudson, Quebec. That same year they moved to Switzerland, settling in Geneva. They have three daughters, Daphne, Tamara and Chloe.[1]
Career
editHutchison became a correspondent for the Sunday and Daily Telegraph of London. He covered the 1967 Six Day War and its aftermath from Benghazi and Cairo, and reported on the First Islamic Summit Conference at Rabat in September 1969. From 1975 to 1982 he was European correspondent for The Financial Post of Toronto and in 1977 received the Business Writing Award for Investigative Reporting for a series of articles that laid bare the high-level corruption surrounding the sale of Canadian nuclear reactors to Argentina.[2] [3]
Personal Life
editIn 1980 he separated from his wife and since 1990 has lived in the Swiss alpine town of Leysin with his companion Lucia Kaeppeli, a medical representative.[1]
Interests
editOther than the Middle East and India, Hutchison’s interests include climbing, ski touring and trekking, with experience in the Alps and Himalayas. His photographs have appeared in publications around the world.[4]
Bibliography
edit- Vesco – The story of the biggest securities fraud of modern times - the looting of IOS – exposé of an international swindler, Robert Lee Vesco, with close ties to the Nixon White House. Published by Praeger Publishers, New York, 1974 (ISBN 9780275198602)
- Off the Books - Citibank and the World's Biggest Money Game – How the world’s largest commercial bank made millions by manipulating the foreign exchange markets. Published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1986 (ISBN 0-688-04881-1)
- Juggernaut - Trucking to Saudi Arabia – travelling the world’s most dangerous overland trade route from the UK to Saudi Arabia. Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1987. Published in paperback by Old Pond Publishing, Ipswich, 2014 (ISBN 978-1-908397-86-7)
- In the Tracks of the Yeti – journal of a winter spent with a Sherpa family in the high Himalayas searching for the Abominable Snowman. Published by Macdonald & Co, London, 1989 (ISBN 9780356179421)
- Their Kingdom Come: Inside the Secret World of Opus Dei – the hidden history of Opus Dei, an extreme rightwing prelature of the Catholic Church. Published by Doubleday, a division of Transworld Publishers, London, 1997 (ISBN 9780385404969)
- The Raja of Harsil – a fictional account of Frederick “Pahari” Wilson, a British Army officer and deserter during the First Afghan War. Wilson introduced commercial timbering to the Himalayas, making him the richest man in northern India. He served as inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King. Roli Books, New Delhi, published Hutchison’s account of the Wilson legend in 2010 (ISBN 9788174367969). A paperback edition appeared in 2014.
- Garden of Fools – the romanticised biography of British canal builder Proby Cautley, whose goal was to eradicate famine in northern India. Published by Palimpsest Books, New Delhi, 2012 (ISBN 978-81-9222661-3)
- Winds of Spring – a novel about a refugee uprising in Lausanne, published by eBookPublishers.com in 2013 (ISBN 9781783010608)
Contributor
edit- Views in the Himala Mountains by James Baillie Fraser. A re-edition, published by Parag Books, New Delhi, 2011
Editor
editFighting for Survival – a report on the causes of insecurity in the Horn of Africa, published by IUCN, Gland, 1994 (ISBN 2-8317-0077-9)[5]
References
edit- ^ a b From Ayrshire, Scotland to Canada: History of a Hutchison Family in Scotland and Canada, 1650-2009, by J. Lawrence Hutchison (ISBN 978-0-9783137-1-5)
- ^ Doubleday Press Release, 11 September 1997
- ^ Sixth Annual National Business Writing Awards, co-sponsored by the Toronto Press Club and the Royal Bank of Canada, 6 April 1978
- ^ See Sunday Times Magazine, London, 21 June 1992; Smithsonian, Washington, February 1988 issue, page 185 et seq., inter alia
- ^ Fighting for Survival https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/6024
External Links
edit- Official website - roberthutchison.ch
- Raja of Harsil website - raja-of-harsil.com