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Patrick Malone: Journey of a Geographer

Patrick Malone is a traveller, writer, and broadcaster born in 1968 in Basel, Switzerland. After studying Human Geography at Leeds University, he initially worked as a teacher but later embarked on extensive walking journeys, including a 1400-kilometre trek across Britain. His adventures led to an opportunity to join a year-long research expedition in the Amazon with his former university tutor, prompting him to leave his teaching job.

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Patrick Malone: Journey of a Geographer

Patrick Malone is a traveller, writer, and broadcaster born in 1968 in Basel, Switzerland. After studying Human Geography at Leeds University, he initially worked as a teacher but later embarked on extensive walking journeys, including a 1400-kilometre trek across Britain. His adventures led to an opportunity to join a year-long research expedition in the Amazon with his former university tutor, prompting him to leave his teaching job.

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Exercise 03: Flow-chart completion

PATRICK MALONE
Patrick Malone (part 1)
Patrick Malone is a traveller, writer and broadcaster. He was born in 1968 in
Basel, Switzerland, where his British parents were working for a pharmaceutical
company. His family left Switzerland when he was twelve, and returned to their home
in Britain. For the next six years, Malone attended the local secondary school. He
then went to Leeds University to do a course in Human Geography. He wanted to
become a town planner. However, the only work he could find was as a teacher at a
local school.
During his holidays and free time, he went walking, often covering very long
distances very quickly. On one occasion he walked the entire length of Britain, a
distance of over 1400 kilometres, in less than a month. He enjoyed the experience
and the challenge so much that he started walking in different parts of the world,
usually in fairly remote areas away from major population centres. The people he
met and the experiences he had on these trips provided him with some excellent
material for his classes.
It was during one trip that he met his old university tutor, Don Perkins. At the
time, Perkins was putting together a team of geographers and biologists for a
research trip to the Amazon, and asked Malone if he would like to go with them. The
expedition was for a whole year, and so he had to give up his job at the school,
but Malone did not hesitate to accept Perkins' offer. He sold his car to make some
money, bought an airline ticket for Brazil and set off.
Question 1-6

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