Antony Johnson, born into an Anglo Irish family, was educated at Wellington College. He was among the last few to be called up for National Service, serving with the 17th/21st Lancers in Germany. He persued an eclectic career, starting with spell in the City, followed by ten years in heavy industry, based in Manchester, all the while moonlighting as an amateur steeplechase jockey. Subsequently he became a professional racehorse trainer in Lambourn, sending out winners of races in the UK and France. A spell living in the Caribbean followed where he formed his own travel business. Back in England he took this business to a higher level, visiting close on a hundred countries in each of the world's continents. This included riding a horse across Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia, a camel across the Tenere Desert in the Sahara and by various methods from St Petersburg to Siberia in Russia including the crossing of the frozen Lake Baikal, twenty six miles, in a horse drawn sleigh in temperatures of up to minus thirty degrees centigrade. In millennium year he competed and completed the London - Sydney Marathon rally, spaced over thirty two days through fifteen countries.Previous publications include East Into The Sun, A Crack of the Whip and many travel related magazine articles.Antony has three sons, Richard, Simon and Sam. His daughter, Jemima, a leading Three Day Event rider, was killed in a riding accident. He lives in Dorset.

Antony Johnson, born into an Anglo Irish family, was educated at Wellington College. He was among the last few to be called up for National Service, serving with the 17th/21st Lancers in Germany. He persued an eclectic career, starting with spell in the City, followed by ten years in heavy industry, based in Manchester, all the while moonlighting as an amateur steeplechase jockey. Subsequently he became a professional racehorse trainer in Lambourn, sending out winners of races in the UK and France. A spell living in the Caribbean followed where he formed his own travel business. Back in England he took this business to a higher level, visiting close on a hundred countries in each of the world's continents. This included riding a horse across Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia, a camel across the Tenere Desert in the Sahara and by various methods from St Petersburg to Siberia in Russia including the crossing of the frozen Lake Baikal, twenty six miles, in a horse drawn sleigh in temperatures of up to minus thirty degrees centigrade. In millennium year he competed and completed the London - Sydney Marathon rally, spaced over thirty two days through fifteen countries.Previous publications include East Into The Sun, A Crack of the Whip and many travel related magazine articles.Antony has three sons, Richard, Simon and Sam. His daughter, Jemima, a leading Three Day Event rider, was killed in a riding accident. He lives in Dorset.

Antony Johnson, born into an Anglo Irish family, was educated at Wellington College. He was among the last few to be called up for National Service, serving with the 17th/21st Lancers in Germany. He persued an eclectic career, starting with spell in the City, followed by ten years in heavy industry, based in Manchester, all the while moonlighting as an amateur steeplechase jockey. Subsequently he became a professional racehorse trainer in Lambourn, sending out winners of races in the UK and France. A spell living in the Caribbean followed where he formed his own travel business. Back in England he took this business to a higher level, visiting close on a hundred countries in each of the world's continents. This included riding a horse across Argentinian and Chilean Patagonia, a camel across the Tenere Desert in the Sahara and by various methods from St Petersburg to Siberia in Russia including the crossing of the frozen Lake Baikal, twenty six miles, in a horse drawn sleigh in temperatures of up to minus thirty degrees centigrade. In millennium year he competed and completed the London - Sydney Marathon rally, spaced over thirty two days through fifteen countries.Previous publications include East Into The Sun, A Crack of the Whip and many travel related magazine articles.Antony has three sons, Richard, Simon and Sam. His daughter, Jemima, a leading Three Day Event rider, was killed in a riding accident. He lives in Dorset.