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.

Parched Seas
by Ian Sharp