BenedictAllen.com
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Benedict Allen British Explorer Author Filmmaker Public Speaker
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Benedict Allen, author, explorer, public speaker and presenter, is one of Britain's best known explorers. He has published nine books, two of them bestsellers, and his pioneering films of his expeditions – occasionally with a film crew but more typically without – have paved the way for the current generation of TV adventurers. Uniquely in television, his philosophy is to immerse himself in extreme or alien environments, relying not on satellite phones and other “backup” but to go alone and learn from indigenous people.
He read Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia, where he crammed three scientific expeditions (to a volcano in Costa Rica, remote forest in Brunei and a glacier in Iceland) into his final year. There then followed a short stint at the University of Aberdeen where he worked out how to undertake his first independent expedition, a crossing from the mouth of the Orinoco to the mouth of the Amazon.
The idea he developed became the cornerstone for all his future ventures: he would immerse himself among indigenous, so-called "tribal," people and hope for their assistance - they saw many apparently hostile environments, such as the Amazon and Borneo, as a home rather than threat. If he went to them alone, and did successfully sink into their world, he might gain a different perspective that he could explore.
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