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Ian Cameron is one of the pseudonyms of the author Donald Payne. Educated at Charterhouse and Corpus Christi, Oxford, Donald served in the Second World War as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, and after working in publishing became a full time writer in the 1950s. He has ghost-written and co-authored many books, some under the name Ian Cameron. Most of his books feature a combination of history, adventure and travel, including The Impossible Dream, the story of the building of the Panama Canal, Lost Paradise, an exploration of the Pacific, and Kingdom of the Sun God, a history of the Andes and their people. His other books include an early history of the Royal Geographical Society (entitled To the Farthest Ends of the Earth) and Riders of the Storm: the Story of the RNLI (2002).
Donald’s books have sold over twenty-one million copies and been translated in seventeen languages, with three adapted for film, including The Lost Ones (1961), dramatized by Disney as The Island at the Top of the World. Under the pseudonym James Vance Marshall, he is also the author of several novels for children. His books include A River Ran Out of Eden (1962) and White-Out (1999), but his most famous work is Walkabout (1964), first published as The Children and later made into a movie directed by Nicolas Roeg. Donald lives in Surrey.
Recent books:
Riders of the Storm: the Story of the RNLI (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2002)
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