Afterward, he was inspired to write about his trip, establishing himself as both a traveller and a writer. On one particular trip, Connolly ‘set off on an overland trip from England to India, to see if it was possible to travel along the Silk Road in the age of the Empire’. Why Did Levison Wood Take on the Old Silk Road?Īrthur Connolly was a British intelligence officer working for the British East India Company during the early 1800s who for many years was sent on reconnaissance missions across much of Central Asia. Long before he decided to walk the Nile, scale the Himalayas or traverse through the Americas, Levison Wood took off to follow in the footsteps of one of his heroes, Arthur Connolly. Levison Wood, the man that ‘has breathed new life into Adventure Travel’ according to Michael Palin
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