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Ian Sharp
Ian was born and raised in London during the second world war. At an early age he discovered he had the wanderlust in his veins. He could hear far off lands calling, and at twenty he decided to follow his dream.
He packed his bags, said goodbye to the United Kingdom and headed for lands down under. At twenty-two he was shipwrecked in the Coral Sea, but undaunted he kept moving; always pushing the boundaries to find excitement, adventure and a lifestyle that might satisfy him.
Employment was never a problem for Ian. He could turn his hand to anything, including trawler fishing, mangrove swamp crabbing and crocodile hunting.
Arriving in Sydney in the mid 60s, and now in his late twenties, Ian decided to temporally lay aside his nomadic life and forge a new career for himself; one which laid the foundations for his current business in Real Estate Trading.
At the age of thirty-two Ian had become the Managing Director and shareholder of sixteen Australian trading companies. The decade between thirty-eight and forty-eight saw him wandering the globe once more.
He has lived in the Italian Alps, Rome, Paris, London, Southeast Asia, and the South Sea Islands. He’s spent time with head-hunters in Borneo, tomb hopped in Egypt, and roamed India. He married in Hong Kong, and now divides his time between England, Canada and the United States, conducting business again as a Real Estate Trader.
Apart from his work, Ian is an artist, and antique collector and writer. He loves the fact that he is free from the constraints mainstream life so often imposes and loves being a hybrid mix of British, Canadian and Australian.
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An employment advertisement for fisherman to work the Northern Queensland winter season is the catalyst to set the wheel-of-fortune spinning and the saga unfolding.
Attracted by the promise of a tough and lucrative lifestyle, the young Sharp embellishes his resume with a bundle of skills drawn straight from his imagination, and he’s delighted when his creativity is rewarded and he gets the job.
After handing over two hundred and fifty Australian pounds, as a returnable sign-on bond, to Captain McKenna, and his partner Leo, Sharp joins fifteen other young hopefuls and takes his place on the team. The hefty bond money, paid by all the workers, except for Sharp, is designed to deter the crew from jumping ship. Something they all contemplated after they’d had a first-hand experience of the captain’s Jekyll to Hyde transformation.
Sharp weaves an exciting tale of commercial fishing, crab and oyster harvesting, and peppers it with crocodile hunts and unseaworthy vessels. He recounts, with amazing clarity, the actions of the incredibly cruel and scheming captain and the unbelievable physical and mental abuse he dishes out. Sharp describes how many of the young men, broken by the harshness, run or find solace in madness before and during being shipwrecked on a desolate island.
Parched Seas is a chronicle of Sharp’s personal journey. One he had painstakingly, and exactly, recorded from beginning to end. His carefully constructed narration allows his readers to share the events and participate in a smörgåsbord of experiences that are described in rich and vivid language.
Sharp’s life lesson to his readers – go for everything life offers—have an adventure.
 
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