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Draft:Robbie J. Marshall

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Robert 'Robbie' John Marshall (born July 5th, 1949), was a self confessed skinny hippy of british descent. He was born in Clatterbridge Hospital on The Wirral and briefly raised in Malaya, educated in Wales at Lindisfarne boarding school and then Art in London and had two daughters by age 24.

He founded and ran a design consultancy and had a brief career as a travel journalist. He is most well known for completing a solo-circumnavigation of the world on a Triumph Trophy 1200cc motorcycle over the course of 51 weeks between 1995 and 1996; he later published a book and film about his travels entitled Triumph Around the World[1].

World Trip

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first solo circumnavigation commited to film.


References

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  1. ^ Marshall, Robbie (1 June 2001). Triumph Around the World (2nd ed.). United Kingdom: Eye Books (published 13 April 2011). ISBN 9781908646217.