Nick Green Celebrates 40 Years and Three Books

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 10, 2012 -- Nick Green Celebrates 40 Years and Three Books


New Generation Publishing author Nick Green, born in Oxford, is celebrating his 40th birthday in Botswana where he has been living for the last four years. Having had successful careers in both publishing and catering, Nick moved from England to Namibia in 2006 to work as a hospitality consultant and camp manager for Wilderness Safaris. After two years he relocated to Botswana at the beginning of 2008 and has since worked for many of the leading safari operators.

In 2009, he published his first book, Boathouse to Botswana, with New Generation Publishing .

A chance conversation at a friend's wedding takes a very English restaurant manager from Oxford to the remotest deserts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast and the tropical swamplands of Botswana's Okavango Delta. Learning to cope with the heat and the tribal customs of the Himba and the San (Bushmen), adapting to work in an environment where confrontations with lions, elephants and leopards are the norm, often pale in comparison when considering the complexities of tackling the most curious beast of all - the safari super-rich. Boathouse to Botswana takes us on a fascinating and funny journey; informative and insightful about both Namibia and Botswana it is also a fascinating history of the author's professional experiences over 18 years in the hospitality industry. Nick Green has written a travel book that enables us to share in the passion, the power, the excitement and the optimism that is Africa.


and followed it up with Three Journeys to Patagonia

Three Journeys to Patagonia tells the story of Nick Green's love affair with Latin America and charts his progress backpacking the subcontinent as a teenager, as an aspiring travel writer in his twenties, and later as a confirmed adventurer and Patagonia aficionado in his thirties. Nick tells the story of how once Patagonia had come into his life in 1991, it remained in his consciousness, compelling him to read around the subject, to study it, and to visit the region again and again. Three Journeys to Patagonia asks why so many travellers have experienced the same overwhelming emotions and been mesmerised by Patagonia's enduring sense of isolation, the notion of space and the rugged beauty of a landscape uncorrupted by man. Stories and historical accounts are pulled from different sources and presented to the reader as evidence that serves to prove the self-perpetuating nature of the enduring Patagonian mystique. The author's candid diaries, from 1991, 1998, and 2009, reveal a changing Patagonian and South American scene, through the eyes of a boy, becoming a man.

and Warriors - A poem and short stories,



The eponymous Warriors was written (and recorded in a single take) in Oxford, in 1997. Copies were first sold by hand to slightly bewildered nightclubbers in Birmingham, after the author had already serenaded them with his guitar, his face badly scarred at the time from a bicycle accident. The stories in this collection are an eclectic mix, some personal, some not. All intriguing.

All three titles are available in hard copy and ebook formats from all major book stores.

2012 will hopefully see the publication of his first full-length fiction piece, Expat - A Mexican novel.

I knew it was the beginning of better things to come. I would never again ignore the plight of those Mexicans with nothing. These were my people now. The street sellers, the pedlars, the mime artists, taxi drivers, pickpockets, strippers. Priests, nuns, choir boys could all go to hell; my god was older and fundamentally more important than theirs. The stage was set for whatever was about to befall me. King for a day, I had tasted it and wasn’t about to let it slip away. It was a blazing awareness. I was blind but I could see. Asleep, yet wide awake. Alive, but dead.

and a black comedy entitled King of New Beginnings.

I’m typing this in my fingerless mittens with a hot water bottle on top of my double-socked feet. Jo came round last night and we sat in bed drinking champagne. I made mushroom soup and we watched Sideways on the laptop. This week I managed to get her home before midnight but she nearly stayed over. It’s too much, isn’t it? To fall in love now that I’m leaving. Like not finding that great bar or restaurant until the last night of a two-week holiday. The spark is real enough, but so is her husband, and my plans to go away, and the conflict in me to be both Miles and Jack (Sideways). Does kissing really not count? Who was it that said kissing is far more intimate than fucking, and therefore far worse on the scale of disloyalty, infidelity? Bukowski?

Nick is also the literary agent for Bernard Horton, whose first book The Horton Story - A fifty year journey of modern crossbow development is published by New Generation in February 2012, and second book My Forever Heartache: Four years of discovery with the Kalahari Bushmen is under consideration with two South African publishers.

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Review copies available on request.
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