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Nick Thorpe

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Born
in Kingston-upon-Thames, The United Kingdom
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Genre
Travel, Memoir, Spirituality

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June 2012

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Nick Thorpe is an award-winning writer and journalist. A contributor to the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Scotsman and BBC Radio 4 among others, he has covered stories ranging from Russian presidential elections to the coca wars of Bolivia, for which he was shortlisted for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.

His latest book, Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go (Little Brown, Jun 2011) is the story of his quest to find balance and fulfilment by sampling everything from naturism to monasticism, Buddhism to ballooning. "Pitch-perfect," wrote the Scotsman's reviewer. "Thorpe's epiphany is profound and affecting, and it is the counterpoint of poignancy and comedy that makes this very personal sear ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 272 ratings · 33 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Eight Men and a Duck: An Im...
3.77 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions
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Adrift in Caledonia: boat-h...
3.65 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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Urban Worrier: Adventures i...
3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions
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